| Leo Szilard  AKA Leó Spitz
Born: 11-Feb-1898
Birthplace: Budapest, Austria-Hungary
Died: 30-May-1964
Location of death: La Jolla, CA
Cause of death: Heart Failure
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Physicist Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Nuclear chain reaction Military service: Austro-Hungarian Army (1917-18) Wife: Gertrud Weiss (m. 1951)
High School: Reáliskola, Budapest (1916)
University: Budapest Technical University
University: PhD, University of Berlin
Professor: Columbia University (1937-42)
Scholar: Nuclear Researcher, University of Chicago (1942-45)
Professor: Biophysics, University of Chicago (1946-)
Professor: Brandeis University
Manhattan Project
Naturalized US Citizen 1943
American Academy of Arts and Sciences 1954
American Physical Society
Council for a Livable World Founder
Federation of American Scientists
Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Lunar Crater Szilard (34.0°N, 105.7°E, 122km dia.)
National Inventors Hall of Fame
Humanist of the Year 1960
Jewish Ancestry
Author of books:
The Voice of the Dolphins and Other Stories (1961)
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