American Physical Society. Annual meeting (2014: Savannah, Ga.)
The Many Worlds of Leo Szilard [sound recording], 2014 April 7.
Audio recording of session R17 of the April 2014 annual meeting of the American Physical Society, held in Savannah, Georgia in April 2014. This session was chaired by Daniel Kleppner, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Talks (and speakers) include: "The Many Worlds of Leo Szilard: Physicist, Peacemaker, Provocateur" (William Lanouette); "Leo Szilard in Physics and Information" (Richard Garwin); "Leo Szilard: Biologist and Peace-Maker" (Matthew Meselson). Topics discussed include Leo Szilard, nuclear chain reaction, thermodynamics, arms control.
This professional society of educators, industrial and government research workers, and students of physics and related fields, was established in 1899 to promote the advancement and diffusion of the knowledge of physics. It was a founding Member Society of the American Institute of Physics. The American Physical Society (APS) meetings are a forum for scientists to gather and share research results on a wide range of physics and physics-related topics.
Szilard, Leo
Arms control.
Thermodynamics.
Garwin, Richard L.
Kleppner, Daniel
Lanouette, William.
Meselson, Matthew
AIP-ICOS
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