Leo Szilard

Leo Szilard (1898 - 1964) was a Hungarian-German-American physicist and inventor. He is known for developing the nuclear chain reaction in 1933, patented the idea of a nuclear fission reactor in 1934, and in late 1939 wrote a letter and got Albert Einstein's signature on it that encouraged the US to begin the Manhattan Project that built the atom bomb.

Wisdom & Quotes

• Don't lie if you don't have to.

- Science, no. 176, 1972

Frederico Garcia Lorca