Genius in the Shadows: A Biography of Leo Szilard, the Man Behind the Bomb by Bela Silard, William Lanouette

Genius in the Shadows: A Biography of Leo Szilard, the Man Behind the Bomb

Bela Silard, William Lanouette

608 pages first pub 1992 (view editions)

nonfiction biography history science challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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Leo Szilard has long been overshadowed by such luminaries as Einstein, Oppenheimer, and Enrico Fermi—with whom he codesigned the first nuclear reactor in 1942. A shy, witty eccentric, the Hungarian born Szilard lived both sides of the arms race, w...

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