Research Paper on:
Atomic Physicist Leo Szilard

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crucial to the developments of the time, but his involvement was no less important. He was a friend of Einsteins and a man who is best known for alerting the  world, or more specifically Einstein and Roosevelt, to the strong possibility that Russia was also working on atomic bombs. In the following paper we present an examination of Szilard.  Leo Szilard "In the elite circle surrounding Bohr, Einstein, and the other revolutionaries who created quantum mechanics only the most talented of students gained acceptance. Among these was Leo  Szilard, one of a group of brilliant young Hungarians" (Schweber, 19993; p. 1461). He and the other young Hungarians were crucial players in the game of science at the time,  a science that was respected and admired by the government. "Szilard was not quite as proficient in mathematics as his two dazzling friends, but for his doctoral dissertation he submitted  a pathbreaking analysis of the relation between information, measurement, and entropy whose importance was generally recognized only much later. Szilard went on to make seminal contributions to nuclear physics during  the 30s and played an influential role in the development of molecular biology after World War II - often with contributions that are not reflected in the corpus of his  scientific publications" (Schweber, 19993; p. 1461). It is often considered that one of his most influential impacts came through "alerting the scientific community and the military establishment of Great  Britain and the United States to the potentialities of nuclear chain reactions. Szilard had been sensitized by H. G. Wellss The World Set Free: A Story of Mankind, which he  had read not long after its publication in 1914," and "soon after the discovery of the neutron in 1932 he became obsessed with the fact that a nuclear chain reaction