Leo Szilard papers | WorldCat.org (original) (raw)

Summary:The collection best documents Szilard's work on the atomic bomb and his efforts on behalf of global cooperation and arms control, with most materials dating from the late 1930s to the early 1960s. Earlier materials include patents, personal documents, and letters. Prominent correspondents include Albert Einstein, Enrico Fermi, J. William Fulbright, Otto Hahn, Hubert Humphrey, Frédéric Joliot-Curie, Linus Pauling, Michael Polyani, Jonas Salk, Edward Teller, Harold C. Urey, and Eugene P. Wigner. Includes incoming and copies of outgoing correspondence. Accession processed in 2000 includes additional correspondence with J.F. Kennedy, N. Khruschev, and Gertrude Szilard. The accession also contains copies of articles about Szilard and other memorabilia