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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

587 pages first pub 1992 (view editions)

nonfiction biography history science challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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Leo Szilard, known in scientific circles as the "father of the atom bomb", has been overshadowed by such luminaries as Albert Einstein, Enrico Fermi, J. Robert Oppenheimer, and Edward Teller. Yet it was Szilard who first developed the idea of obta...

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