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Leo Szilard: Annotated Bibliography

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Leo Szilard (originally Leo Spitz) was born in Budapest (Austria-Hungary) on February 11th, 1898. His middle-class Jewish parents: Louis Spitz, a civil engineer and Thekla Vidor, raised him. Convinced that there was no future for him in post-war Hungary, Szilard left his homeland for Berlin when he was 21 years old. The young man enrolled at the Friedrich Wilhelm University, where he attended lectures given by Albert Einstein, Max Planck, Walter Nernst, James Franck and Max von Laue. Szilard received German citizenship in 1930, but was already uneasy about the political situation in the country. When Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany he urged his family and friends to flee Europe while they still could. In our timeline he also successfully

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