{"id":15099,"date":"2024-02-11T21:24:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-11T21:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/szilard-library\/?p=15099"},"modified":"2025-01-04T16:08:08","modified_gmt":"2025-01-04T16:08:08","slug":"embl-50th-anniversary-in-the-library-leo-szilard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/szilard-library\/blog\/2024\/02\/embl-50th-anniversary-in-the-library-leo-szilard\/","title":{"rendered":"EMBL 50th anniversary in the library: Leo Szil\u00e1rd"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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First blog in our series is dedicated to works of one of the EMBL founding fathers, Leo Szil\u00e1rd, after whom the library has been named of.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is only when one begins to read Leo Szilard’s works that one can get an impression of how fascinating, versatile and unique scientist Szil\u00e1rd was. In addition, Leo Szil\u00e1rd was deeply concerned with world peace and with efforts to create what he called \u201ca more livable world\u201d. And with the picture of the world in 2024, Leo Szilard’s legacy is perhaps more important than ever as an example of what we should all strive for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Among other, in our Special collection Le\u00f3 Szil\u00e1rd<\/a> can be found:<\/p>\n\n\n

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\n \n Genius in the shadows: a biography of Leo Szilard, the man behind the bomb (The University of Chicago Press 1994) <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n

By William Lanouette with Bela Silard<\/p>\n

Well-known names such as Albert Einstein, Enrico Fermi, J. Robert Oppenheimer, and Edward Teller are usually those that surround the creation of the atom bomb. One name that is rarely mentioned is Leo Szilard, known in scientific circles as \u201cfather of the atom bomb.\u201d The man who first developed the idea of harnessing energy from nuclear chain reactions, he is curiously buried with barely a trace in the history of this topic.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n\n\n

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\n \n The collected works of Leo Szilard scientific papers ( MIT Press 1972) <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n

Edited by Bernard T. Feld and Gertrud Weiss Szilard<\/p>\n

Leo Szilard’s work ranged from physics to biology; he crossed over with ease from the world of neutrons to that of neurons, from the nuclei of atoms to the nuclei of cells.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n\n\n

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\n \n Leo Szilard: his version of the facts: selected recollections and correspondence (MIT Press 1978) <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n

Edited by Spencer R. Weart and Gertrud Weiss Szilard<\/p>\n

The title of this book derives from an anecdote: Szilard once contemplated writing a history of the atomic bomb project, including some disturbing incidents, and told a colleague he was going to write down the facts, not for publication, just for the information of God. When the colleague remarked that God might know the facts, Szilard replied, \u201cNot this <\/em> version of the facts\u201d. (From a review by Melba Phillips, published in Science & Society Vol. 44, No. 1, pp. 87-89 1980)<\/p>\n<\/article>\n\n\n

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\n \n The voice of the dolphins and other stories (Stanford University Press 1992) <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n

By Leo Szilard<\/p>\n

Science fiction book that includes five stories, dating from 1947, 1948, 1949 and 1960.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n\n\n

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\n \n Fallout : J. Robert Oppenheimer, Leo Szilard, and the political science of the atomic bomb (G.T. Labs 2001) <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n

By Jim Ottaviani<\/p>\n

The focus of Fallout is on scientists, in particular J. Robert Oppenheimer and Leo Szilard, whose lives offer a cautionary tale about the uneasy alliance between the military, the government, and the beginnings of “big science.” Jim Ottaviani is not only a comics writer, he also has a master’s degree in nuclear engineering. <\/p>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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