What is Leó Szilárd?
{{unsourced|date=April 2014}} '''Leó Szilárd''' February 11, 1898 – May 30, 1964) was a Hungarian-American Jewish [[physicist]] and [[inventor]].<ref>{{cite news |work=Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA) |title=This Jewish Physicist Regretted His Work Toward the Bomb |url=https://www.jta.org/jewniverse/2017/this-jewish-physicist-regretted-his-work-toward-the-bomb |last=Solomon |first=Zachary |date=February 16, 2017 |access-date=January 5, 2024}}</ref> He conceived the [[nuclear chain reaction]] in 1933, patented the idea of a [[nuclear reactor]] with [[Enrico Fermi]], and in late 1939 wrote the letter for [[Albert Einstein]]'s signature that resulted in the [[Manhattan Project]] that built the [[atomic bomb]]. ==References== {{Reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Szilard, Leo}} [[Category:1898 births]] [[Category:1964 deaths]] [[Category:Hungarian physicists]] [[Category:American inventors]] [[Category:American physicists]] [[Category:Naturalized citizens of the United States]] {{bio-stub}}