Szilard

1 Yet transforming blackboard scribbles into a working device was not so simple a matter, as Szilard had understood.

2 In spring 1939, working at Columbia with the Hungarian physicist Leo Szilard, Fermi set out to answer a crucial question about it.

3 In July 1939 Szilard and others enlisted the help of the renowned physicist Albert Einstein, then on holiday on Long Island, N.Y., to support them by writing a letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

4 Leo Szilard, an escaped Hungarian physicist, took a draft of a letter to Einstein, who, although pacifistic, signed the final version.

5 For all his creativity, Szilard lacked the tenacity of an Ernest Lawrence, as he acknowledged years later.

6 Mr. Szilard was also a personal agent for Ms. Jamison and various ballet stars, negotiating contracts and creating galas and concerts for them abroad.

7 Colorful in his opinions, Mr. Szilard also advanced valuable advice to his clients.

8 Hans Bethe, Neils Bohr, J. Robert Oppenheimer and Leo Szilard all contributed to this book and it was the first major publication that said we are in the atomic age.

9 Briggs had taken Szilard’s concerns about publicity to heart but applied them in a peculiarly counterproductive way.

10 For Fermi, this was a disappointment, and for Szilard, an all-too-familiar setback.

11 Even the fretful Szilard could not have been unhappy with the pace of action that followed.

12 On Feb. 16, 1939, Szilard’s residence permit as a Czech national expires, and they make plans to decamp for his homeland and await visas there.

13 Szilard and Fermi, working in separate labs at Columbia University, came up with a figure closer to 2.0—still a large quantity under the circumstances.

14 Szilard and Wigner were not the only physicists feeling frustrated.

15 Paul Szilard was born in Budapest on Aug. 24, 1912, the son of a stockbroker who expected his son to follow in his footsteps.

16 In a speech earlier in the evening the 98-year-old impresario Paul Szilard spoke of Ms. Jamison as one of the great dancers of the 20th century.

17 Szilard Demeter, the director of the Petofi Literary Museum, said that "inhumane dictatorships will still be inhumane and dictatorships, even if someone starts to portray them in a positive light."

18 Yet Szilard had learned from bitter experience that sometimes paranoia is the prudent approach.

19 Way signed the Szilard Petition and worked to spread awareness of the moral responsibility surrounding atomic weaponry.

20 I would have signed Szilard's petition that argued giving a demonstration rather than bombing Hiroshima would have been enough.

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