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Einstein-Szilard Letter - Nuclear Museum

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Albert EinsteinOld Grove Rd.Nassau PointPeconic, Long IslandAugust 2nd, 1939F.D. Roosevelt,President of the United States,White HouseWashington, D.C.Sir:Some recent work by E. Fermi and L. Szilard, which has been communicated to me in manuscript, leads me to expect that the element uranium may be turned into a new and important source of…

Albert Einstein was the world’s most renowned physicist and a Nobel Prize winner. He had fled Germany in the 1930s and established himself in the United States. Hungarian refugees Leo Szilard, Eugene Wigner, and Edward Teller persuaded Einstein to warn President Franklin D. Roosevelt about the possibility that Germany could develop an atomic bomb, and to urge FDR to consider a similar program in the United States. Albert Einstein Old Grove Rd. Nassau Point Peconic, Long Island August 2nd, 1939 F.D. Roosevelt, President of the United States, White House Washington, D.C. Sir: Some…

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