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Uranium Neutron Multiplication

Hungary · Science / Physics. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1939

Leo Szilard1939

New York · Science / Physics

With collaborators at Columbia, measures neutron multiplication from uranium and advances chain-reaction studies.

Names involved

Leo Szilard

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