Szilard

American  

[sil-ahrd] / ˈsɪl ɑrd /

noun

1. Leo, 1898–1964, U.S. physicist, born in Hungary.

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Szilard British  

/ ˈsɪlɑːd /

noun

1. Leo. 1898–1964, US physicist, born in Hungary, who originated the idea of a self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction (1934). He worked on the atomic bomb during World War II but later pressed for the international control of nuclear weapons

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Szilard Scientific  

/ zĭl′ərd /

1. Hungarian-born American physicist who introduced the concept of the nuclear chain reaction. With Enrico Fermi, he built the world's first nuclear reactor. Szilard was instrumental in the development of the atomic bomb.

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Example Sentences

Szilard emphasized that the atomic bomb wasn’t just a more powerful weapon but a fundamental transformation in the nature of warfare, an instrument of annihilation.

From Salon

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."

From BBC

So can you tell us what it was and who Szilard was?

From Scientific American

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.

From Scientific American

He enlisted the collaboration of a former student, Leo Szilard, a Hungarian physicist and mathematician.

From Washington Post