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Leo Szilard Online

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/08/2007 - 20:19.
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http://www.dannen.com/szilard.html

Excerpt: 

Szilard's ideas included the linear accelerator, cyclotron, electron microscope, and nuclear chain reaction. Equally important was his insistence that scientists accept moral responsibility for the consequences of their work.

Annotation: 

Site contains several biographies of the physicist and biophysicist Leo Szilard. Interviews and other primary sources are made available, as well as links to other sites for potential research. A number of images are present as is an extensive bibliography.

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