GB Patent 630,726, Improvements in or relating to the transmutation of chemical elements, Leo Szilard, 1936 (filed 1934)
US Patent 2,708,656, Neutronic Reactor, Enrico Fermi and Leo Szilard, 1955 (filed 1944)
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Retrobites: Atomic Bomb: Szilard (1960), Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Physicist Leo Szilard explains how he came up with the idea for the atomic bomb.
Knowledge or Certainty (6/7), The Ascent of Man, BBC, 1973. Jacob Bronowski tells the story of his friend Leo Szilard's work on the atomic bomb from its conception to its use in warfare.
