How to pronounce “szilard” in English

Leo Szilard was a physicist from Hungary, who, in a burst of inspiration, eventually came up with the idea of the nuclear chain reaction.

And Szilard liked contradiction.

When Szilard and Teller came to visit Einstein in Princeton, and they told him chain reaction, atomic bomb, his answer was, ah, I had never thought about this.

This is Leo Szilard, Leo Szilard, the first human to have understood the concept of chain

And so Szilard is the starter of the Manhattan Project.

And so-- this is Leo Szilard.

This is the patent for the atomic reactor after Fermi and Szilard.

By the way, both Szilard and Turing all their life were influenced, strongly influenced, by a book they read when they were 10 years old.

In August '39, Einstein would write his famous, letter together with Leo Szilard, asking President Roosevelt

There is a famous letter which Einstein sent to Roosevelt, which was the start, but the letter actually was written-- the draft was written by Szilard.

And it's the same in all these stories I told, no , Szilard, or Turing, or whatever.

did all these, you know, why did Johnny Von Neumann, Eugene Wigner, Leo Szilard, Edward Teller and Paul Erdos, they all came out of the same group of people in Hungary and ended