Cover of Genius in the Shadows: A Biography of Leo Szilard, the Man Behind the Bomb

Genius in the Shadows: A Biography of Leo Szilard, the Man Behind the Bomb

by William Lanouette

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Leo Szilard has long been overshadowed by such luminaries as Einstein, Oppenheimer, and Enrico Fermi—with whom he codesigned the first nuclear reactor in 1942. A shy, witty ec…