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Army Intelligence report on Enrico Fermi and Leo SzilardIn November 1938, Szilard moved to New York City, taking a room at the King's Crown Hotel near. He encountered, who invited him to speak about his research at an afternoon seminar in January 1939. That month, brought news to New York of the discovery of nuclear fission in Germany by and, and its theoretical explanation by,.
When Szilard found out about it on a visit to Wigner at, he immediately realized that might be the element capable of sustaining a chain reaction.Unable to convince Fermi that this was the case, Szilard set out on his own. He obtained permission from the head of the Physics Department at Columbia, to use a laboratory for three months. To fund his experiment, he borrowed $2,000 from a fellow inventor, Benjamin Liebowitz.
He wired at Oxford and asked him to send a beryllium cylinder. He convinced to become his collaborator, and hired Semyon Krewer to investigate processes for manufacturing pure uranium and.Szilard and Zinn conducted a simple experiment on the seventh floor of Pupin Hall at Columbia, using a radium–beryllium source to bombard uranium with neutrons. Initially nothing registered on the, but then Zinn realized that it was not plugged in.
On doing so, they discovered significant neutron multiplication in natural uranium, proving that a chain reaction might be possible. Szilard later described the event: 'We turned the switch and saw the flashes. We watched them for a little while and then we switched everything off and went home.' He understood the implications and consequences of this discovery, though. 'That night, there was very little doubt in my mind that the world was headed for grief'.While they had demonstrated that the fission of uranium produced more neutrons than it consumed, this was still not a chain reaction. Szilard persuaded Fermi and to try a larger experiment using 500 pounds (230 kg) of uranium.
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To maximize the chance of fission, they needed a to slow the neutrons down. Was a known moderator, so they used water. The results were disappointing. It became apparent that hydrogen slowed neutrons down, but also absorbed them, leaving fewer for the chain reaction.
Szilard then suggested Fermi use, in the form of graphite. He felt he would need about 50 tonnes (49 long tons; 55 short tons) of graphite and 5 tonnes (4.9 long tons; 5.5 short tons) of uranium. As a back-up plan, Szilard also considered where he might find a few tons of; would not absorb neutrons like ordinary hydrogen, but would have the similar value as a moderator. Such quantities of materiel would require a lot of money.Szilard drafted a confidential letter to the President, explaining the possibility of nuclear weapons, warning of the, and encouraging the development of a program that could result in their creation. With the help of Wigner and, he approached his old friend and collaborator Einstein in August 1939, and convinced him to sign the letter, lending his fame to the proposal. The resulted in the establishment of research into nuclear fission by the U.S.
Government, and ultimately to the creation of the. Roosevelt gave the letter to his aide, with the instruction: 'Pa, this requires action!' An Advisory Committee on Uranium was formed under, a scientist and the director of the. Its first meeting on October 21, 1939, was attended by Szilard, Teller, and Wigner, who persuaded the Army and Navy to provide $6,000 for Szilard to purchase supplies for experiments—in particular, more graphite. A 1940 Army intelligence report on Fermi and Szilard, prepared when the United States had not yet entered World War II, expressed reservations about both. While it contained some errors of fact about Szilard, it correctly noted his dire prediction that Germany would win the war.Fermi and Szilard met with representatives of, who manufactured graphite, and Szilard made another important discovery. He asked about impurities in graphite, and learned that it usually contained, a neutron absorber.
He then had special boron-free graphite produced. Had he not done so, they might have concluded, as the German nuclear researchers did, that graphite was unsuitable for use as a neutron moderator. Like the German researchers, Fermi and Szilard still believed that enormous quantities of uranium would be required for an, and therefore concentrated on producing a controlled chain reaction. Fermi determined that a fissioning uranium atom produced 1.73 neutrons on average.
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It was enough, but a careful design was called for to minimize losses. Szilard worked up various designs for a. 'If the uranium project could have been run on ideas alone,' Wigner later remarked, 'no one but Leo Szilard would have been needed.' Metallurgical Laboratory. The scientists, with Szilard third from right, in the lab coat.At its December 6, 1941 meeting, the resolved to proceed with an all-out effort to produce atomic bombs. This decision was given urgency by the Japanese the following day that brought the United States into World War II.
It was formally approved by Roosevelt in January 1942. From the University of Chicago was appointed head of research and development. Against Szilard's wishes, Compton concentrated all the groups working on reactors and at the of the University of Chicago.
Compton laid out an ambitious plan to achieve a chain reaction by January 1943, start manufacturing plutonium in nuclear reactors by January 1944, and produce an atomic bomb by January 1945.In January 1942, Szilard joined the Metallurgical Laboratory in Chicago as a research associate, and later the chief physicist. Noted that Szilard served as the project 'gadfly', asking all the embarrassing questions. Szilard provided important insights. While did not fission readily with slow, moderated neutrons, it might still fission with the fast neutrons produced by fission.
This effect was small but crucial. Szilard made suggestions that improved the uranium canning process, and worked with David Gurinsky and on a method for recovering uranium from its salts.A vexing question at the time was how a production reactor should be cooled. Taking a conservative view that every possible neutron must be preserved, the majority opinion initially favored cooling with helium, which would absorb very few neutrons. Szilard argued that if this was a concern, then liquid would be a better choice. He supervised experiments with it, but the practical difficulties turned out to be too great. In the end, Wigner's plan to use ordinary water as a coolant won out.
When the coolant issue became too heated, Compton and the director of the Manhattan Project, Brigadier General, moved to dismiss Szilard, who was still a German citizen, but the, refused to do so. Szilard was therefore present on December 2, 1942, when the first man-made self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction was achieved in the under viewing stands of, and shook Fermi's hand.Szilard became a of the United States in March 1943. The Army offered Szilard $25,000 for his inventions before November 1940, when he officially joined the project. He was the co-holder, with Fermi, of the patent on the nuclear reactor. In the end he sold his patent to the government for reimbursement of his expenses, some $15,416, plus the standard $1 fee.
He continued to work with Fermi and Wigner on nuclear reactor design, and is credited with coining the term '.With an enduring passion for the preservation of human life and political freedom, Szilard hoped that the U.S. Government would not use nuclear weapons, but that the mere threat of such weapons would force Germany and Japan to surrender. He also worried about the long-term implications of nuclear weapons, predicting that their use by the United States would start a nuclear arms race with the USSR. He drafted the advocating that the atomic bomb be demonstrated to the enemy, and used only if the enemy did not then surrender. The instead chose to over the protests of Szilard and other scientists.
Afterwards, he lobbied for amendments to the that placed nuclear energy under civilian control. After the war. Szilard and Norman Hilberry at the site of, at the, some years after the war. It was demolished in 1957.In 1946, Szilard secured a research professorship at the University of Chicago that allowed him to research in biology and the social sciences. He teamed up with, a chemist who had worked at the Metallurgical Laboratory during the war.
The two men saw biology as a field that had not been explored as much as physics, and was ready for scientific breakthroughs. It was a field that Szilard had been working on in 1933 before he had become subsumed in the quest for a nuclear chain reaction. The duo made considerable advances. They invented the, a device for regulating the growth rate of the in a, and developed methods for measuring the growth rate of bacteria.
They discovered, an important factor in processes such as growth and metabolism. Szilard gave essential advice to and for their first cloning of a human cell in 1955.
Personal life Before relation with his later wife Gertrud Weiss, Leo Szilard's life partner in the period 1927 – 1934 was kindergarten teacher and opera singer Gerda Philipsborn, who also worked as a volunteer in a Berlin asylum organization for refugee children and in 1932 moved to India to continue in this work. Szilard married Gertrud (Trude) Weiss, a physician, in a civil ceremony in New York on October 13, 1951. They had known each other since 1929, and had frequently corresponded and visited each other ever since. Weiss took up a teaching position at the in April 1950, and Szilard began staying with her in for weeks at a time when they had never been together for more than a few days before. Single people living together was frowned upon in the conservative United States at the time, and after they were discovered by one of her students, Szilard began to worry that she might lose her job. Their relationship remained a long-distance one, and they kept news of their marriage quiet. Many of his friends were shocked when they found out, as it was widely believed that Szilard was a born bachelor.
Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California Writings In 1949 Szilard wrote a short story titled 'My Trial as a War Criminal' in which he imagined himself on trial for crimes against humanity after the United States lost a war with the. He publicly sounded the alarm against the possible development of, explaining in radio talk on February 26, 1950, that sufficiently big thermonuclear bomb rigged with specific but common materials, might annihilate mankind.
While compared him to, and the dismissed the idea, scientists debated whether it was feasible or not. The commissioned a study by that concluded that it was.Szilard published a book of short stories, The Voice of the Dolphins (1961), in which he dealt with the moral and ethical issues raised by the and his own role in the development of atomic weapons. The title story described an international biology research laboratory in Central Europe. This became reality after a meeting in 1962 with,.
When the was established, the library was named The Szilard Library and the library stamp features dolphins. Other honors that he received included the in 1959, and the in 1960. A on the far side of the Moon was named after him in 1970. The, established in 1974, is given in his honor by the. Cancer diagnosis and treatment In 1960, Szilard was diagnosed with. He underwent at New York's using a cobalt 60 treatment regimen that he designed himself. A second round of treatment with an increased dose followed in 1962.
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The doctors tried to tell him that the increased radiation dose would kill him, but he said it wouldn't, and that anyway he would die without it. The higher dose did its job and his cancer never returned. This treatment became standard for many cancers and is still used.
Last Years Szilard spent his last years as a fellow of the in, California, which he had helped to create. He was appointed a non-resident fellow there in July 1963, and became a resident fellow on April 1, 1964, after moving to La Jolla in February. With Trude, he lived in a bungalow on the property of the. On May 30, 1964, he died there in his sleep of a; when Trude awoke, she was unable to revive him. His remains were cremated.His papers are in the library at the. In February 2014, the library announced that they received funding from the to digitize its collection of his papers, extending from 1938 to 1998.
Patents. —Improvements in or relating to the transmutation of chemical elements—L. Szilard, filed June 28, 1934. —Neutronic reactor—E.
Szilard, filed December 19, 1944, issued May 17, 1955. ——co-developed with filed in 1926, issued November 11, 1930Recognition and remembrance., 1959., 1960.
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