UC San Diego’s Geisel Library has received a grant of nearly $100,000 to digitize the papers and materials of Leo Szilard, the late physicist whose work on nuclear chain reactions helped lead to the ...

Not only was Leo Szilárd an influential nuclear researcher — he also dabbled in tales of sentient dolphins. Peggy Kolm offers an overview of his career. In retrospect, it would appear that among the ...

On this day in 1939, a crucial letter was delivered to President Franklin D. Roosevelt that led to the beginnings of the Manhattan Project, which would eventually produce the first atomic bombs during ...

“Even if we accept, as the basic tenet of true democracy, that one moron is equal to one genius, is it necessary to go a further step and hold that two morons are better than one genius?” — Leo ...

There once was a Hungarian-born scientist who succeeded in persuading the United States to develop atomic bombs, but failed to stop the bombs from being dropped. Physicist Leo Szilard (1898-1964) was ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Yesterday marked Leo Szilárd's one hundred ...

The atom bomb was one of the defining inventions of the 20th Century. So how did science fiction writer HG Wells predict its invention three decades before the first detonations, asks Samira Ahmed.

On this day in 1939, a crucial letter was delivered to President Franklin D. Roosevelt that led to the beginnings of the Manhattan Project, which would eventually produce the first atomic bombs during ...