Biography

Leó Szilárd was born on February 11, 1898 in Budapest, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]. He was married to Gertrud Weiss. He died on May 30, 1964 in La Jolla, California, USA.

Nuclear physicist.

Inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame, 1996.

Inducted into the Naitonal Inventors Hall of Fame, 1996.

We turned the switch, saw the flashes, watched for ten minutes, then switched everything off and went home. That night I knew the world was headed for sorrow. [on the 1939 Columbia University experiment that confirmed atoms could be split, making possible the use of atomic power]