Accession Processed in 1988
BIOGRAPHICAL MATERIALS
Personal documents
Will and testament - Gertrude Weiss Szilard 1958
Miscellaneous documents
1918 - 1920
1922 - 1925
1927 - 1931
University documents
Family affairs
Polizeiliche Abmeldung. Adalbert "Bela" Szilard 1923
Errinnerunger aus meinem Leben
Biographical data and list of publications 1922 - 1946
Articles about Leo Szilard
Miscellaneous articles with references to Leo Szilard (photocopies)
Anderson, Herbert L. "The Legacy of Fermi and Szilard" 1974
Anderson, Herbert L. "Three questions about the sustained nuclear chain reaction" 1973
Coffin, Tristram. "Leo Szilard: The Conscience of a Scientist." 1964
Denver Post - "The Giants," comic strip 1967
Gwertzman, Bernard. "The world has six years to live" 1963
Halasz, Nicholas and Robert. "Leo Szilard, the Reluctant Father of the Atomic Bomb" 1947
Irwin, Theodore. "The legend that is Leo Szilard" 1961
Lear, John. "A theory of how we age" 1959
Life Magazine. "I'm looking for a market for wisdom: Leo Szilard, scientist" 1961
Science. Cover photo 1946
Science and Technology. "Thinking ahead with...Leo Szilard" 1962
Smith, Alice Kimball. "After Hiroshima" 1965
Smith, Alice Kimball. "Rabinowitch awarded Kalinga Prize" 1966
Smith, Donald O. "Two percent for peace" 1962
Swing, Raymond. "Raymond Swing's Broadcast" 1945
Walsh, John. "A conversation with Eugene Wigner" 1973
Wigner, E.P. "Ideas before the discovery of nuclear fission" 1941
Wigner, E.P. "Leo Szilard, 1898-1964: A biographical memoir by Eugene Wigner" 1969
Wolf, Anthony. Look Magazine, "Twenty-five years with the bomb" 1967
Zaslausky, David. "Of Dolphins and Men" 1962
CORRESPONDENCE
Adam, Isbert 1935 - 1954
Admiralty. (U.K.). Director of Naval Contracts 1936 - 1939
America: National Catholic Weekly Review 1955 - 1962
American Academy of Arts and Sciences 1956 - 1963
American Institute of Physics 1940 - 1946
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 1949 - 1964
Bulletin of the Research Exchancge on the Prevention of War 1955
California Institute of Technology 1957 - 1962
Canadian Radium and Uranium Corporation 1941 - 1960
Centennial Review of Arts and Sciences 1956
Claremont, Haynes, and Company 1935 - 1949
Commission to Study the Organization of Peace 1950
Compton, Arthur Holly 1941 - 1945
Czechoslovak Academy of Science 1963 - 1964
Detre, Rose - Leo Szilard's sister 1947 - 1962
Electrical and Musical Industries Ltd. 1934 - 1935
Federal Security Agency. Public Health Service. National Institutes of Health 1950 - 1952
Friends Committee on National Legislation 1961 - 1963
General Electric Company, Ltd. (U.K.) 1934
Glazier, William (Salk Institute) 1962 - 1963
International Latex Corporation 1952 - 1964
International Science and Technology 1962
Institute for International Order 1956 - 1957
Institute for Strategic Studies 1952 - 1964
Joliot-Curie, F. 1937 - 1955
Kennedy, John F. 1960 - 1963
Laue, Max von 1921 - 1960
Marc Wood International, Inc. 1959 - 1960
Marzani and Munsell Publishers, Inc. 1962
Ministry of Supply. Division of Atomic Energy 1949
National Carbon Company, Inc. 1939 - 1941
National Rural Electric Cooperative Association 1947
Naval Medical Research Institute 1953 - 1954
New American Library of World Literature 1960 - 1962
New York Times - Letters of public response to Szilard's "Letter to the Editor" 1955
Ohio Chemical and Manufacturing Company 1941
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton, and Garrison 1960
Pennie, Davis, Marvin, and Barrows 1938 - 1955
Roosevelt, Franklin and Eleanor 1939 - 1961
Royal Navy Scientific Service 1936 - 1949
Russell, Bertrand 1955 - 1958
Sa-Sl - Miscellaneous
Sm-Sz - Miscellaneous
Silard, Bela - Leo Szilard's brother 1939 - 1962
Szilard, Louis - Leo Szilard's father 1947
Undersecretary of State (U.K.). Aliens Department. Home Office, London 1936 - 1938
Union Carbide and Carbon Research 1939 - 1941
U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare 1957 - 1964
U.S. Office of Scientific Research and Development 1941 - 1946
United States Graphite Company 1939 - 1940
White House, Executive Mansion, Washington, D.C. 1940 - 1964
WRITINGS
Writings by Leo Szilard
Absorption of residual neutrons. Reprint 1935
Aging process and the comparative strength of spermatozoa. Mimeographs, edited 1963
Anomalies in radioactivity induced by neutrons. Typescript and gallery proofs 1937
Anomalies in the Fermi effect. Typescript drafts, edited 1936
America, Russia, and the Bomb. New Republic 1949
Atomic bombs and the postwar position of the United States in the world. Memorandum to have been placed before President Roosevelt prior to the first bomb test in New Mexico. Typescript, carbon copies, and mimeograph censored copy 1945
Beeinflussung polarisierter Elektronenstrahlen durch Magnetfelder, with E. Rupp 1931
Can science create life? Typescript, edited undated
Can we avert an arms race under the present conditions? Typescript, edited 1946
Can we get off the road to war? Typescript, edited, and carbon copy 1962
Can we have international control of atomic energy? Typescript, with corrections, and prints 1949
Chemical analogue theory of antibody formation. Typescript, with corrections 1957
Chemical separation of the radioactive element from its bombarded isotope in the Fermi effect. With T. A. Chalmers. Reprint 1934
Chromosomal-Function Loss theory of the aging process and the dependence of the sex ratio at birth on the age of the father. Typescript drafts, edited 1959
Contribution of 238 fission to the fast chain reaction in enriched mixtures. Typescript draft, edited, and finished version 1943
Control of the chain reaction. Typescript drafts, including additional "Remarks to paper" and "General remarks to the enclosed paper" 1941
Control of the formation of specific proteins in bacteria and in animal cells. Reprint 1960
Conversation with Halban. Typescript 1944
Conversation with K (Khrushchev) on October 5, 1960. Recorded from memory on October 9 on the basis of notes made on the day of the conversation 1960
Council and the Lobby. Edited draft, revisions 1962
Creative intelligence and society: The case of atomic research, the background in fundamental science. Typescript drafts, edited 1946
Dependence of the sex ratio at birth on the age of the father. Reprint 1960
Description of a study relating to the world security problems raised by the bomb 1958
Description of the chemostat. Reprint 1950
Detection of neutrons liberated from beryllium by gamma rays: a new technique for inducing radioactivity. Reprint 1934
Device for growing bacterial populations under steady state conditions. Reprint 1955
Diary of Dr. Davis. Mimeograph master, mimeograph, and published version
Die Polarisierung von Rontgenstrahlen durch Reflexion an Kristallen, with H.M. Reprint 1926
Disarmament and the problem of peace. Published print 1955
Disclosures of July 1939. Typescript, edited 1939
Divergent chain reaction in systems composed of uranium and carbon
Background of the paper 'Divergent chain reaction in systems composed of uranium and carbon' of February 14, 1940
A-55 Report - "Summary." Typescript, edited 1940
A-55 Report - "Notations." Typescript, edited 1940
A-55 Report - "Introduction." Typescript, edited 1940
A-55 Report - "Quotations." Typescript, edited 1940
A-55 Report - "Single spheres of uranium." Typescript, edited 1940
A-55 Report - "Lattice of uranium spheres." Typescript, edited 1940
A-55 Report - "Spacing of the lattice." Typescript, edited 1940
A-55 Report - "Balance of emissions and absorption of neutrons by uranium." Typescript, edited 1940
A-55 Report - "Conditions for a chain reaction." Typescript, edited 1940
A-55 Report - "Critical dimensions." Typescript, edited 1940
A-55 Report - "Measurements." Typescript, edited 1940
A-55 Report - "Stabilizing the chain reaction." Typescript, edited 1940
A-55 Report - "Conclusions." Typescript, edited 1940
A-55 Report - Photocopy draft mailed to Szilard to establish date 1940
A-55 Report - Typescript drafts 1940
A-55 Report - "Divergent chain reaction in systems composed of uranium and carbon" 1946
A-55 Report - "In place of a summary" 1946
A-55 Report - Notes, added in May 1946 1946
A-55 Report - "Nuclear chain reaction in a system composed of uranium, beryllium and carbon" 1940
Draft for a film - Autobiographical. Handwritten rough draft undated
Effect of the atomic stalemate on the chances of reaching a political settlement with Russia 1955
Ein einfacher Versuch zur Auffindung eines selektiven Effektes bei der Zerstreuung von Rontgenstrahlen. With H. Mark. Reprint 1925
Emission of neutrons by uranium, with W.H. Zinn. Reprint 1939
Experiments on light-reactivation of ultraviolet inactivated bacteria. With Aaron Novick. Reprint 1949
Experiments on spontaneous and chemically induced mutations of bacteria growing in the chemostat. With Aaron Novick 1951
Experiments on the breeder. Typescript 1952
Experiments on the production of the 'Compound' using double-auxotrophs. Edited draft with data, final copy 1953
Experiments with the chemostat on spontaneous mutations of bacteria. With Aaron Novick. Edited drafts, mimeographs, reprint 1950
Experiments with the chemostat on the rates of amino acid synthesis in bacteria. With Aaron Novick. Typescript, figures, reprint 1954
Fast neutron fission of U238 and the production of element 94-238 from U238. Preliminary report. Typescript, mimeograph 1943
Final report. Results of work with Aaron Novick. Typescript, mimeograph 1953
Financing of higher education in the professional schools of the U. of Chicago. Typescript undated
Free market economy in a 'constant flow' monetary system
Gamma rays excited by capture of neutrons. Draft and reprint 1937
General recommendations concerning research on uranium undated
Genetic mechanisms in bacteria and bacterial viruses. Experiments on spontaneous and chemically induced mutations of bacteria growing in the chemostat, with Aaron Novick. Reprint 1951
Getting off the line of least resistance. Disarmament 1962
Growth factor limited bacterial populations kept in the growth phase 1950
Has the time come to abrogate war? undated
Homologous suppression in man. Rough draft 1963
How did it all begin? Council and Lobby for Abolishing War. Draft 1962
How do amino acids read the code?
Mimeograph masters
How should one go about developing the field of quantitative biology in Europe? Draft 1963
How to kill your husband and get away with it. Rough draft undated
How to live with the Bomb and survive - The possibility of a Pax Russo-Americana in the Long-Range Rocket Stage of the so-called Atomic Stalemate
Memorandum on 'How to live with the Bomb' 1957
How to secure peace in a disarmed world. Typescript 1961
Idea of a working group to plan a program of scientific development in fertility control 1952
If in trouble- the truth. Handwritten notes and rough draft 1950
Induction of mutations in mammals by ionizing radiation. Edited drafts and final copy 1961
Inelastic scattering of fast neutrons by Fe, Pb, and Bi. With S. Bernstein, B. Feld, and J. Ashkin. Reprint 1948
Instantaneous emission of fast neutrons in the interaction of slow neutrons with uranium. With Walter Zinn
Instructions that may be given to the participants of a proposed study concerning the issue of how to secure the peace in the disarmed world." Typescript. (Pugwash) English and Russian 1962
Kathy and the Bear. Edited draft and mimeograph copy 1949
Last chance for patriots. Typescript 1955
Letter in the open. Rough draft for article for the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Typescript and mimeograph 1950
Letter to Stalin. Reprint and mimeograph 1947
Letters to the Editor. Miscellaneous letters in chronological order
Liberation of neutrons from beryllium by x-rays. Radioactivity induced by means of electron tubes, with others. Reprint 1934
Liquid metal cooled fast neutron breeders. Typescript and carbon 1945
Losses in slowing neutrons. Carbon undated
Mark Gable Foundation. First version, mimeograph master, mimeograph, final copy 1948
Market economy free from trade cycles
Draft, mimeograph master, mimeograph final copy 1948
Meat: The art of the possible. Edited typescript undated
Medical Counselor'- a new profession. Typescript 1960
Meeting 22 August 1941. Formula for argument for a chain reaction
Message from Leo Szilard. Short and "longish" version 1962
Messenger RNA and the controls of the formation of specific proteins in bacteria. Drafts 1961
Minimal deterrent versus saturation parity - Reprint, March 1964. Printed copy, January 1964. Draft entitled, "Let us put up or shut up," 22 December 1963. Draft entitled, "Farewell to arms control," 16-17 December 1963
Molecular basis of antibody formation. Drafts and reprints 1960
My trial as a war criminal. Mimeograph master, mimeograph final copy and reprint 1948
Natural stability or unstability of the chain reaction undated
Need we keep on risking war? Edited typescript 1963
Negotiating from strength- a previous fallacy. Handwritten notes and edited typescript
Negotiation from strength or a meeting of the minds. Edited draft
Neutron production and absorption in uranium, with H.L. Anderson and E. Fermi. Reprint 1939
Nicolai Machiavellnikow. Drafts, mimeograph master, mimeograph final copy 1949
Notes to Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War. Typescript 1949
Observations on the promotion of the progress of science. Typescript 1946
On Disarmament
On memory and recall
Drafts, preprints, galley proof, figures and final reprint 1964
Transcription from shorthand notebooks of Dr. Leo Szilard's paper 1964
On nuclear chain reactions and their bearing on the question of power production. Drafts 1934
On the cooling of the power plant. Memorandum and figures 1942
On the decrease of entrophy in a thermodynamic system by the intervention of intelligent beings. Galley proofs and reprint 1964
On the formation of adaptive enzymes. Drafts 1957
On the inheritance of longevity. Rough draft of first half of the paper 1963
On the molecular basis of memory. Draft 1964
On the molecular basis of long term memory. Shorthand notebook #1 transcribed posthumously 1964
On the nature of the aging process
On the occasional dominance of the 'perceptible phenotype' in man. Draft and mimeograph 1963
On the possibility of demonstrating desoxyribonuclease produced transformation in mammals. Edited typescript 1957
On the possibility of a Pax Russo-Americana in a stable atomic stalemate
Mimeograph, first rough draft and outline 1958
On the possibility of detecting 'transformation' of somatic cells of mammals or birds. Typescript, mimeograph master, and mimeograph final copy 1957
On the so-called Berlin Crisis. Revised version 1961
Only real issue- justice. Typescript 1955
Orders of magnitude. Bacteria growth undated
Origin of the natural antibodies for human blood group antigens. Rough first draft. Typescript 1956
Outline for a play, T.V. show, or movie. Typescript 1960
Playlet (Scene playing in a Philadelphia Barroom) 1962
Post war events and the Russian disarmament proposals of 1960. Edited typescript
Pre-heating of a bismuth cooled pile. Typescript with handwritten notes 1942
Preliminary report on fission caused by fission neutrons. Edited typescript and photo copy with figure 1941
Preliminary report on inelastic collision of neutrons in uranium and other heavy elements. With W.H. Zinn. Typescript and carbon 1941
Preliminary report on the capture of neutrons by uranium in the energy region of photo neutrons from radium-beryllium sources. With John Marshall, Jr.. Typescript 1941
Preliminary report on the meeting of uranium powder. Typescript and carbon 1941
Proposal. Public interest fellowship organization 1961
Proposal. A group to meet with members of the Kennedy Administration 1963
Proposal for a general approach to the problem of peace. Second rough draft 1955
Proposal for a specific approach to the problem of peace. First draft 1955
Proposal conference on research prospecti in biological aging. Outline
Proposed conversation with Bush. First rough draft. Three parts 1944
Radioactivity induced by neutrons, with T.A. Chalmers. Reprint 1935
Radioactivity induced by nuclear excitation: Excitation by neutrons. With M. Goldhaber, and R.D. Hill. Reprint 1939
Raising the educational level of freshmen entering college 1954
Reasons for the 9 values in A-55. Typescript with handwritten notes 1943
Remarks concerning the use of slowing agents. Typescript and carbon 1943
Remarks on the Fast Neutron Fission. Edited typescript 1942
Remarks to Mr. Drumond's letter of July 20, 1949
Report on "Grand Central Terminal" - Mimeograph master and copy, 1948. Reprint, June 1952
Results of the calculation of 'q' for the spherical case 1941
Resume- Lest we forget. Typescript and handwritten notes 1944
Scientist's Peace Formula. Mimeograph master 1947
Security risk. Rough draft and reprint 1954
Semi-neutrality in saturation parity. Draft and revisions 1963
Shall we face the facts? Mimeograph master and copy 1949
Short report on the progress made in work on uranium during the last three months 1941
Statements
On smoking research. Mimeograph master 1957
Submitted to the Committee on Foreign Relations of the U.S. Senate 1963
Pugwash, Canada. Mimeograph master and typescript 1957
Proposed for adoption by the Council of the University of Chicago 1949
"One minute statement" and "five minute statement." Typescript 1960
Sting of the Bee in saturation parity. Edited typescript, edited version, and reprint 1963
Strategic stalemate -- where it stands at present, and what form it may take in the forseeable future
Studies of mutation rates in bacteria." With Aaron Novick. Reprint 1953
Summary - England's strategic position. Edited typescript 1963
Suppression of an antibody forming chromosome by the homologous chromosome. Edited typescript 1964
Ten Commandments. English translation of Szilard's "Zehn Gebote"
Uber die Ausdehnung der phanomenologischen Thermodynamik auf die Schwankungserscheinungen. Reprint 1925
Uber die Entropieverminderung in einem thermodynamischen System bei Eingriffen intelligenter Wesen. Reprint
Use of threshold detectors for fast neutron studies. With Bernard T. Feld and R. Scalettar 1947
Vaccination of the delayed type. Typescript, mimeograph master, and mimeograph 1957
Virus strains of identical phenotype but different genotype. With Aaron Novick. Drafts, mimeograph, and reprint 1950 - 1951
Voice of the Dolphins and other stories
American edition
Copy 1961
Proof 1961
British edition
Copy 1 & 2 1961
Copy 3 1961
French edition
Copy 1962
Proof 1962
Italian edition 1962
Brazilian edition 1963
German edition - Includes typescript 1963
Dutch edition 1964
Japanese edition
Play adaptation - "Die stimme der delphine"
Rough draft - "Corrected first version" 1960
Welche methoden eignen sich zur forderung der biologischen forschung in Deutschland 1957
What blocks disarmament. Edited typescript 1962
What is wrong with the Chicago Project? Typescript
What the Ford Foundation could do for higher education. Typescript 1951
Where will your children spend the war. Rough draft
Why not meaningful arms control. Draft 1964
You do not want war with Russia. Manuscript and typescript 1952
Zehn Gebote. Mimeograph master and mimeograph. See Szilard's "Ten Commandments" for the English translation 1940
Patents
Miscellaneous
Invention. "Process for the production of radio active cobalt"
Memorandum regarding sale of patents and inventions: facts 1944
Aide memoire. Informal recapitulation of the conversations between Brasch, Szilard, Vogelstein, and Strauss 1938
Patent correspondence chronology from 1935 to 1937
Fur Rontgenstrahlen empfindliche Zelle, with Imre Patai. Cells, sensitive to X-rays 1924
Improvements in or relating to Electron Discharge Tubes 1925
Refrigerating apparatus without absorption of the cooling agent, with Albert Einstein 1927
Refrigerating machines in which the pumping of liquid is effected by intermittently increasing the vapor pressure 1927
Improvements in refrigerating processes and apparatus 1928
Improvements in or relating to Electric Condensers 1928
Improvements in and relating to refrigerating machines 1928
Ontladingsbuis voor regelbare ontlading, with Siemens-Schuckertwerke 1928
Electro dynamic movement of fluid metals particularly for refrigerating machines 1928
Verfahren zum Gieben von Metallen in Formen unter Anwendung elektrischer Strome. Procedure for pouring of metals in forms by use of electric currents 1929
Pump, especially for refrigerating machines 1929
Intermittierend wirkende Kaltemaschine mit getrenntem Kocher and Absorber. Intermittently acting refrigeration machine with separated boiler and absorption unit 1930
Entladungsrohre mit Steuerung des Anodenstromes 1930
Kaltemaschine. Refrigeration machine 1930
Vorrichtung zur Bewegung von flussigen Metallen 1932
Kaltemaschine, with Albert Einstein 1933
Entladungsrohre, bei welcher eine Gasentladung als Elektronenquelle dient. Discharge tube with gas discharge serving as a source of electrons 1933
Vorrichtung zur Bewegung von flussigem Metall, insbesondere zur Verdichtung von Gasen und Dampfen in Kaltemaschinen. Apparatus for the movement of liquid metals, specifically for condensation of gases and vapors in refrigerating machines 1933
Pumpe, vorzugeweise fur Kattemaschinen, with Albert Einstein 1933
Kompressor, im besonderen fur Kaltemaschinen 1933
Pumpe, vorzugsweise fur Kaltemaschinen, with Albert Einstein 1933
Elektromagnetisch Vorrichtung zur Erzeugung einer oszillierenden Bewegung. Electromagnetic apparatus for the production of oscillating motion 1933
Werkwijze voor het comprimeeren van den damp van het koudmakend middel in een koelmachine en koelmachine, geschikt voor de toepassing vandeze werkwijze 1933
Pumpe, insbesondere zur Verdichtung von Gasen und Dampfen in Kaltemaschinen 1933
Vorrichtung zur Bewegung von flussigen Metallen 1933
Asynchronous and Synchronous Transformers for Particles 1934
Vorrichtung zur Bewegung von flussigem Metall 1934
Verfahren zumm elektrochemischen Aufzeichnen von Sprechstromen 1934
Transmutation of chemical elements by one or more efficient particles 1934
Transmutation of elements by fast particles 1934
Transmutation of chemical elements by efficient particles 1934
Transmutation of Matter by Sygma Particles 1934
Improvements in or relating to the Transmutation of Chemical Elements 1935
Improvements in or relating to the Transmutation of Chemical Elements 1936
Improvements in or relating to the Transmutation of Chemical Elements 1938
Process of producing Radio-Active elements. Great Britain, 12 March 1934 1939
Method of Cooling and Use of Beryllium 1940
Chain Reaction
Szilard purchases patent rights from Isbert Adams 1943
Government purchase of Szilard patent rights for reactor 1943
Method of operating a neutronic reactor, with Enrico Fermi 1944
Neutronic Reaction, with Enrico Fermi 1944
Air cooled neutronic reactor, with Enrico Fermi 1945
Neutronic reactor, with Enrico Fermi 1945
Jacketed fuel elements for graphite moderated reactors. With Eugene P. Wigner and Edward C. Crentz 1946
Method of intermittently operating a neutronic reactor 1946
Heavy water moderated neutronic reactor 1946
Neutronic reactor and fuel element, with Gale J. Young 1946
Jacketed fuel element, with Edward C. Creutz and Eugene P. Wigner 1946
Massive leakage irradiator, with Eugene P. Wigner, Robert F. Christy, and Francis L. Friedman 1946
Gas-cooled nuclear reactor. British application for USA- 29 May 1945 1946
Liquid-liquid extractor
Process for producing microbial metabolites 1951
Process for the preservation of bull sperm 1953
Process and apparatus for de-salting sea water 1954
Application by Leo Szilard for just compensation and/or an award 1955
Process and apparatus for slowing the aging of man and similar large mammilian organisms 1955
Agents for producing Disease Resistance 1957
Thermo-electric generator based on thermionic emission in an alkali metal vapor atmosphere 1959
History
Book. Transcription of handwritten notes 1975
History of the Manhattan Project. Handwritten notes 1942
Nuclear fission development in Europe. Handwritten notes
Pages 25 to 29 of an unedited manuscript of Leo Szilard 1961
Uranium project "General remarks: Rough drafts #"
Interviews
CBS Reports
Doctor Szilard and Doctor Bethe Discussion 1960
Disarmament: An interview with a Professor Szilard 1960
Darrow, K.K. Interview with L. Szilard on history of February 12, 1945
Excerpts from taped interview, Dr. Leo Szilard 1963
Lien, Connie. An interview with Leo Szilard as told to Connie Lien
Man Tomorrow: An interview recorded at Dubrovnik with Professor Leo Szilard
Smith, Alice Kimball. The Elusive Dr. Szilard 1960
U.S News and World Report. Interview with Dr. Szilard 1960
Memoranda
1949 - 1961
Speeches
1945 - General considerations concerning the atomic bomb
1945 - Atomic Energy Control Conference at the University of Chicago
1947 - Atomic energy, a source of power or a source of trouble, Spokane
1947 - Portland and Spokane. Travel correspondence
1949 - Can we have international control of atomic energy? Rochester Institute of International Affairs
1953, November 19 - Speech at Brandeis, General Education
1954 - The sensitive minority among men of science, Brandeis University 1954
1959 - Toasts and notes from the Baden Conference
1962 - Are we on the road to war? Speech at Berkeley
1962 - Are we on the road to war? Public response
Handwritten Notes
Biology - (I-22), "Experiment of May 11, 1949"
Notebooks
Biology - (Chicago) 1957
Biology - (Chicago). Includes draft of "Science is my racket" and "Chemostat"
Biology - (Chicago)
Heat transfer, refractories, metals, high temperature
Publications By Other Authors
Bibliographic citations
General Miscellaneous
Unidentified authors
Adams, Mark H
Adey, W. Ross
Adler, F. and H. von Halban
Alexander, Mary L
Alexander, Peter P
Altenburg, Edgar
Amaldi, Edoardo
American Institute of Biological Sciences
American Physical Society
American Scientist
Ames, Bruce N
Amrine, Michael
Anderson, Norman G
Andrew, Warren
Anker, H.S
Armitage, P
Atomic Industrial Forum, Inc
Atwood, K.C
Barr, Stringfellow
Barrows, C.H
Beadle, George Wells
Beale, G.H
Beals, Carleton
Beatty, R.A
Benet, Stephen Vincent
Benoit, Emile
Benoit, Jacques et al
Benzer, Seymour
Berg, Benjamin
Berger, Heinz
Berlin, N.I. and F.L. Dimaggio
Bertani, G
Beutler, Ernest et al
Bjorksten, J
Black, Stephen
Bloch, Konrad
Blum, Harold F
Blum, Walter J
Bok, Bart J
Boots, Ralph
Borek, Ernest
Brasch, Arno et al
Brealey, G.J
Brenner, S
Brent, L
Brillouin, L
Brower, Michael and Peter J. Sharfman
Brown, Harrison and Amron Katz
Bryson, Vernon
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Burnet, F.M
Burton, K
Burton, L. et al
Buttin, Gerard
Byrnes, James F
Campbell, John W. Jr
Carroll, Lewis
Cavalli, Luigi L
Changeux, J.P. et al
Chase, Merrill W
Chemical and Engineering News
Clark, Grenville
Clark, Joseph S
Cohen, Seymour
Cohn, M.L
Collier's
Conger, Alan D
Dahl, Eilif
Davis, Bernard
Delbruck, M
DeMars, Robert I
Demerec, M
Demers, Pierre
Dexter, Lewis A
Dixon, Frank J
Dobzhansky, Theodosius
Doermann, A.H
Doudoroff, Michael
Douglas, William O
Downes, Jean
Dray, Sheldon
Dubert, Jean Marie
Dublin, Louis I
Dulbecco, R
Dunlop, Stuart G
Dunn, H.O
Dunning, J.R. et al
Duve, Arne
Eaton, Cyrus
Ebert, James D
Edelman, G.M. and B. Benacerraf
Ehrmann, Henry W
Eisenbud, Julie
Emerson, Mary R
Endeavour
Englesberg, Ellis
Ennis, Herbert L
Ephrussi, Boris
Falek, Arthur
Feld, Bernard
Fincham, J.R.S
Finn, Robert
Fisher, Robert
Food for All
Foreign Affairs
Foster, Ruth A.C
Foster, Willam C
Fowler, Harold
Fox, Sophie
Franklin, Rosalind E
Freund, Jules
Friedman, Milton
Frisch, O.R
Galambos, Robert
Gamow, George
Garen, Alan
Garn, Stanley Marion
Garza Curcho, Mercedes de la
Gautheret, R.J
General Electric
Gerstein, George L
Giles, Norman H
Gilpatric, Roswell L
Glasser, R.G. et al
Gordon, Maxwell
Gordon, Myron
Gorini, Luigi
Gottstein, Klaus
Grahn, Douglas and Katherine Hamilton
Gray, L.H
Grodzins, Morton
Gros, Francois
Gross, Samson R
Gunn, Ross
Gunsalus, I.C
Haas, Felix L
Haddow, Alexander
Haddox, C.H
Hadorn, Ernst
Halban, Hans von, et al
Hambrecht, Frederick Terry
Hammond, Cuyler E. and Daniel Horn
Harris, Seymour E
Harrold, Ernst
Heden, Carl-Goran
Helen, Meyer Unger
Hershey, A.D. et al
Herskowitz, Irwin H
Herzenber, Leonard A
Hinshelwood, Sir Cyril
Hinton, Claude and M. Whittinghill
History Today
Hitchings, George H. et al
Hogness, D.S
Hollaender, Alex
Horkheimer, Max
Hornbastel, J. and F.A. Valente
Horowitz, N.H
Huber, Von Wolfgang
Huebschman, Charles
Huennekens, F.M
Humanist
Hutchins, Robert M
Hutner, S.H
Huxley, Aldous
I.F. Stone's Weekly
Ivanoz, Alexander
Jacob, Francois
Jakoby, W.B
Jalavisto, E
Jerne, N.K
Journal of the American Medical Association
Kalmus, Henry P
Kane, John Francis
Kapitza, P.L
Kaplan, Morton A
Kaplan, R.W
Karush, Fred
Kelner, Albert
Kendall, Edward C
Kepes, A
Kiang, N.Y-S
Kihlman, Bengt
Kirk, J.E
Klein, L.R
Kluver, Heinrich
Koch, Arthur
Kogon, Eugen and Heinz Norden
Kolmark, G
Kowarski, L
Kubie, Lawrence S
Kun, Ernest
Lancet
Lanni, Frank
Lansing, A.I
Lark, K.G
Latarjet, Raymond
Laue, Max von
Lawrence, H.S. and A.M. Pappenheimer
Lederberg, Joshua
Lee, Howard H
Leghorn, Richard S
Lentz, Thomas
Lerner, Abba
Lerner, Max
Levan, Albert
Levine, Philip
Lewin, Ralph A
Lindop, Patricia L
Lockingen, Lloyd S
Loeb, W.A
Loewi, O
Lovelock, J.E
Luria, S.E
Maas, Werner K. and Elizabeth McFall
MacCracken, Richard H
Maisel, Albert Q
Mandelbrot, Benoit
Mann, W.B
Marcovich, H
Marcus, Philip I. and Elliot Robbins
Martin, Gustav J. and J.M. Beiler
Maslow, A.H
McCloy, John
McColluch, Warren S. et al
McGrath, William
McNamara, Robert S
McNaughton Foundation
Meier, R.L
Meitner, Lise
Melman, Seymour
Melnechuk, Theodore
Menke, John R
Merkel, Joseph R
Meselson, M. and J.J. Weigle
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
Meyer, Helen U
Meyers, Jack
Michelson, A. Michael
Miller, J.J. et al
Miller, Philip C
Mitchell, Herschel and Mary Houlahan
Monod, Jacques
Morgenthau, Hans
Mortimer, Robert K
Muller, Hermann J
Myers, Ronald E
Napier, R.A.N
Nelson, Thomas Clifford
Newcombe, Howard B
Newsweek
Nickerson, Walter J
Novick, Aaron
Novitzki, E. and A.W. Kimball
Nuveen, John
Ogg, James E
Oppenheimer, Robert
Owen, R.D
Pappenheimer, A.M
Papazian, Haig P
Pardee, Arthur B
Parkes, A.S
Pauli, W. and J. Solomon
Pauling, Linus
Physics Today
Placzek, G
Platt, John R
Platt, Robert
Poldosky, Richard J
Polge, C
Pontecorvo, G
Popular Mechanics
Preas, Sally
Proceedings of the Institute of Radio Engineers
Prout, Timothy
Provasoli, L
Puck, Theodore
Radin, Max
Rado, Sandor
Razran, Gregory
Rector, L.E
Reischer, Helen Simpson
Rennert, Owen M. and Herbert S. Anker
Ridenour, Louis N
Riesman, David
Rich, Alexander
Rizet, Georges M
Robbins, William J
Roberts, Eugene
Roberts, Richard B
Rodieck, R.W. et al
Rogoff, J.M
Rothen, Alexandre
Rothstein, Aser
Rothstein, Jerome
Ruff, Otto and Alfred Heinzelmann
Ruml, Beardsley et al
Ruska, E
Russell, John R. and Ralph M. Reitan
Russell, W.L
Ryan, Francis J. and Lillian K. Schneider
Sachs, Alexander
Sacher, George A
Salzburger Nachrichten
Saturday Review
Saturday Review of Literature
Schneider, Lillian K
Schurr, Sam
Science
Scientific American
Seaborg, Glenn T
Senior, James K. and P.A. Levene
Sharma, K.N
Shaw, John G
Shedlovsky, Theodore
Shelesnyak, M.C
Shell Development Co
Sheng, T.C
Shepley, James R. and Clay Blair Jr
Shils, Edward A
Sieve, Benjamin F
Silard, John
Silverstein, Arthur
Simon, Sir Francis
Simons, Howard
Sinex, F. Marott
Sleeper, B.P
Slonimski, Piotr P
Sloviter, H.A
Smith, Audrey U
Smith, J. Maynard
Soal, S.G
Sonneborn, T.M
Southam, Anna L
Spalding, J.F., et al
Sperry, R.W
Spiegelman, S
Standard Oil Company
Stanier, R.Y
Stedman, D.F. and A.G. Brown
Stent, Gunther S
Stern, Curt
Stimson, Henry L
Stone, Wilson S
Stormont, R.T
Stokes, J.L
Storer, John B
Stover, Carl F
Strauss, Bernard S
Strehler, B.L
Streisinger, George
Swan, Henry
Sylvania Technologist
Talmage, David W
Taliaferro, William H
Tatum, E.L
Taylor, Harriet E
Teas, H.J
Telfer, James D
Teller, Edward
Teuber, Hans-Lukas
Thiersch, John B
Thirring, Hans
Thomas, Charles A
Tijo, Joe Hin and Albert Levan
Time
Tittler, I.A
Tobias, Julian M
Uhr, Jonathan W
Underwood, Benton J
Union Process Co
Urey, Harold C
Uri, N
U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
U.S. Dept. Health, Education and Welfare
U.S. Government Printing Office
U.S. News and World Report
U.S. Patent Quarterly
Uzzell, Thomas H
Van Niel, C.B
Veritas. A poem entitled "The Day before Xmas." Written by unknown author at the Metallurgical Laboratory, Chicago ca. 1943
Visconti, N
Von Ehrenstein, Gunther, et al
Von Halban, H., F. Joliot, L. Kowarski
Wagner, R.P. and C.H. Haddox
Wainright, L
Wainright, S.D
Wallace, Bruce
Walter, Donald O. and W.R. Adey
Warburg, Otto
Warburg, Otto, et al
Watson, James Dewey
Webber, Milo M
Weigle, J.J
Weisner, B.P. and John Yudkin
Weiss, Paul
Weiss, Thomas
Weizcacker, C.F. von
Whiffen, Alma J
Whittinghill, Maurice and E. E. Hendricks
Wiener, Norbert and Armand Siegel
Wigner, Eugene P
Wilkie, Wendall
Willet, E.L. and G.W. Salisbury
Williams, George C
Wilson, William A
Wirth, Louis
Witkin, Evelyn M
Wittcoff, Raywond
Wollman, E.L. and G.S. Stent
Woodshole Marine Biological Laboratory
World Academy of Art and Science
Wright, Sewall
Wyatt, G.R
Yanofsky, Charles and David M. Booner
Young, J.Z
Yockey, Hubert P
Zahl, Paul A
Zahler, Stanley A
Zamenhof, Stephen
Zinn, W.H., et al
Zirkle, Raymond E
SUBJECTS AND ORGANIZATIONS
Organizations
American Institute of Biological Sciences. (A.I.B.S.)
Association for Scientific Collaboration, Inc
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Conference on Science, Technology, and National Security 1956
Columbia University Interdisciplinary Project
Conference of the Industrial Sponsors of the Institutes of the U. of Chicago 1950 - 1951
Congress International de Physique Nucleaire
Conservation Foundation. "The physiological approach to fertility control" 1952 - 1953
Council for a Livable World
Council to Abolish War
General Atomic, a division of General Dynamics Corporation
Genetics Society of America
Japan Council Against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs
National Association of Life Underwriters
National Committee for an Effective Congress
National Science Foundation
New York Academy of Sciences. Section of Biology
Pugwash
Regional Conference on the International Control and Utilization of Atomic ... 1946
Research Institute of America. "Living History Awards"
Rogoff Foundation. Medical Research Laboratory of the G.N. Stewart Memorial Fund
Society for the Study of Development and Growth
Special Project Committee on Security Through Arms Control 1958
U.S. Congress. Joint Committee on Atomic Energy
U.S. Department of State. Staff list 1961
University of Chicago
Subjects
Chemostat
Equipment and supplies catalogs
From the table at home on May 29, 1964 (S-72)
Ivanhoe street house. Denver, Colorado 1951
Letter to Stalin
Population Statistics in the U.S. and the U.S.S.R.
Requests for reprints of the works of Leo Szilard
Search for a Laboratory Site in the New York area 1942
FINANCIAL RECORDS
Bank Statements
Chase Manhattan Bank
Checking account statements 1955 - 1958
Correspondence 1955 - 1958
Deposit slips 1955 - 1959
Chase National Bank
Checking account statements 1946 - 1955
Correspondence 1943 - 1955
Deposit slips 1943 - 1955
Registered letter reciepts 1945 - 1957
Midland Bank Limited, London - Correspondence 1933 - 1938
University National Bank
Checking account statements 1945 - 1953
Correspondence 1953 - 1954
Deposit and withdrawal slips
Cancelled Checks
Chase National Bank
1939 - 1943
1945 - 1946
University National Bank 1946 - 1947
Chase National Bank 1947 - 1955
Chase Manhattan Bank 1955 - 1958
Cancelled check stubs 1946 - 1957
Income Tax Records
Miscellaneous
1932
1936 - 1956
1958
General Financial Records
Miscellaneous
Brandeis University
General materials
Travel expenses
Cab fare records
Emergency Committee of Atomic Scientists
Finances 1957 - 1958
Hotel - Bills, miscellaneous
Hotel Somerset
Insurance
Blue Cross
Continental Casualty Company
Lee Nashem Agency
Metropolitan Life
Teacher's Insurance and Annuity Association
International Latex Corporation
Kings Crown Hotel
McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc
Men's Faculty Club of Columbia University
Metallurgical Laboratory
Park Lane Hotel
Professional Services
Quadrangle Club
Bills 1954 - 1958
Monthly Invoices 1949 - 1954
Telephone charges 1949 - 1958
Restaurant receipts
Salk Institute. Book orders
Secretarial services
Social Security
Stock Market invoices
Telephone and telegram invoices
Travel expenses- miscellaneous
Unitronics Corporation. Invoices
University of California. Travel expenses
University of Chicago
Financial records, travel expenses, and reimbursment
Pay receipts
University of Colorado. Pay receipts, expense account, and miscellaneous records
War Bonds 1945
Weiss, Mrs. Paul
Contracts and Grants
Guggenheim Fellowship Application Form 1940
National Advisory Health Council Research Grant RG 2814 - Study of the growth, adaption, and mutation of bacteria and bacterial viruses, carried out with new biophysical methods 1950
Contract NR 135-056 - Growth, adaptation, and mutation of bacteria and bacterial viruses 1951
U.S. Public Health Service Grant No.E.144(C1) 1951 - 1953
Contract ONR:441:GJS/NR 119-221 1952 - 1953
Application to the National Science Foundation 1956
Grant proposal to the Louis Block Fund for Basic Research and Advanced Study - Study of the formation of adaptive enzymes in bacteria and the formation of antibodies in mammals 1957 & 1958
Application for research grant to the National Institute of Health - Quantative Studies of General Biological Phenomena 1959
Proposal to the National Science Foundation for a research grant - A quantitative study of the molecular bases of general biological phenomena 1959
Research grant. GM06876-04 from the National Advisory Health Council - Quantative Studies of General Biological Phenomena 1963 - 1964
Travel Materials
Miscellaneous travel materials
Airline tickets
Miscellaneous
American Airlines
United Airlines
Train tickets
Address Books
Early
1930s
1935
Late 1950s
1961 - 1964
Packet of index cards with addresses
Miscellaneous Addresses
Multiple addresses on single pages and lists of persons
A - Z
GERTRUDE SZILARD MATERIALS
Biography
Certificates - "License to Practice Medicine," Colorado State Board of Medical Examiners 1951
Certificates - "Public Health Certificate," American Board of Preventive Medicine and Public Health (2 plaques) 1949
Curriculum vitae
Attorney fees
Personal notes/Course notes
Medical notes and correspondence
Correspondence
"Letters from Important People"
Letters of condolence
Unknown authors
A-Z
Funeral program, guestbook, and reply to letters of condolence
General correspondence
Unidentified correspondents
A - Miscellaneous
The American Humanist Association 1964 - 1967
American Institute of Physics 1964 - 1977
Anderson, Herbert L. 1968
Anderson, Luedeka, Fitch, Even and Tabin 1964 - 1975
Anker, Herbert 1965 - 1975
B - Miscellaneous
Breit, Gregory 1940 - 1977
British Broadcasting Corp. 1965
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 1965 - 1979
C - Miscellaneous
CBS News 1972 - 1976
Clark, Ronald W. 1945 - 1972
Cohen, Benjamin V. 1974 - 1976
Cold Springs Harbor Lab 1966 - 1969
Council For A Livable World 1967 - 1972
D - Miscellaneous
Doering, William 1964 - 1976
E - Miscellaneous
Eckart, Carl 1967 - 1969
Einstein Estate 1933 - 1976
Esterer, A.K. 1971
F - Miscellaneous
Feld, Bernard T. 1967 - 1971
Fisher, Roger 1963 - 1976
G - Miscellaneous
Galef and Jacobs 1965 - 1975
Goldhaber, Maurice 1967 - 1976
Grinberg, A.P. 1962 - 1967
H - Miscellaneous
Hamstra, Doris 1973
Harvard University - Perspectives in American History 1967 - 1968
Hersey, John 1965
I - Miscellaneous
Institute for Advanced Study 1973 - 1976
Institute for Policy Studies 1969
J - Miscellaneous
K - Miscellaneous
L - Miscellaneous
Levy, Lillian 1960 - 1965
The Library of Congress 1965 - 1971
Life Magazine 1971
Livingston, Robert B. 1965 - 1975
M - Miscellaneous
Marschak, Marianne and Jascha 1964 - 1976
McMillan, Edwin M. 1928 - 1967
MIT Press 1965 - 1979
Monod, Jacques 1965 - 1971
N - Miscellaneous
National Endowment for the Humanities 1973 - 1974
National Inventors Hall of Fame 1978
National Science Foundation 1973
Novick, Aaron 1961 - 1971
P - Miscellaneous
Pearce, Roy Harvey 1973
Pennie, Edmonds, Morton, Taylor, and Adams 1968
Q - Miscellaneous
R - Miscellaneous
S - Miscellaneous
Sherwin, Martin J. 1966 - 1973
Simon and Schuster, Inc., Publishers 1963 - 1975
Simpson, John A. 1975 - 1976
Sloan Foundation 1973
Stokes, Joseph III, M.D. 1972 - 1973
T - Miscellaneous
Teller, Edward 1945 - 1976
U - Miscellaneous
V - Miscellaneous
W - Miscellaneous
Weart, Spencer 1974 - 1976
Weiss, Egon A. 1966 - 1976
Weisskopf, Victor F. 1964 - 1976
Wigner, Eugene P. 1960 - 1976
Winsor, Kathleen 1967 - 1971
York, Herbert F. 1973
Writings
Miscellaneous
Biographical references for extension of Leo Szilard biography
Introductions to Collected Works of Leo Szilard, Volume II - Hutchins
Szilard's Ten Commandments with Introduction by Trude
Collected Works of Leo Szilard
Outline for proposed Leo Szilard biography
1933 - 1952
Xerox of "materials given to Henry Barton in 1942 for safekeeping" 1942
For possible addition to Bailyn materials
Material from History box folders not used in Bailyn set
1898 - 1946
Roladex chronology of events in Leo Szilard's life
Subjects
Council for a Livable World
Freedom of Information Act
Department of the Army
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
Miscellaneous
Original Finding Aid
Original
PHOTOGRAPHS
Portraits
Two drawings of Leo Szilard by his father, Louis Szilard
Taken by Tita Binz undated
Miscellaneous reproductions from prints
Taken by Erica Anderson. New York undated
Taken by John Kaspar. Denver, Colorado Early 1950s
Taken by Lotte Meitner-Graf. London undated
Gertrude Weiss Szilard
General Photographs
Street corner in London where Szilard conceived the idea of the chain reaction
Miscellaneous
Radio program - WWDC [Steve Allis... Show]
American Physical Society Meeting, Washington, D.C. with E.O. Lawrence 1935
England 1936
Cold Spring Harbor 1947
With Albert Einstein writing letter to President Roosevelt - Re-enactment 1948
Colorado Early 1950s
Cold Spring Harbor Early 1950s
Birthplace of the atomic bomb. 1953
Second Pugwash Meeting. Quebec, Canada 1958
Third Pugwash Meeting 1958
Atlantic City Late 1950s
At presentation of the Newspaper Guild's Page One Award in Science. Memorial Hospital, New York 1960
Atoms for Peace Award 1960
With Eleanor Roosevelt in Washington, D.C. 1960
Taken by Life Magazine photographer John Loengard. Memorial Hospital, New York 1960
Cold Spring Harbor 1960
Taken by Life Magazine photographer Ester Bubley 1961
Pugwash Meeting. Stowe, Vermont 1961
Taken by Heka. Memorial Hospital, New York 1962
Taken by Life Magazine photographer Ester Bubley 1962
Washington, D.C. 1963
Mount Vernon 1961
Cold Spring Harbor Symposium 1963
Pugwash Meeting. Dubrovnick, USSR 1963
Taken by Landshoff. New York 1964
Taken by Landshoff. "Shaving sequence." New York 1964
Salk Institute. Fellows Meeting 1964
With Jonas Salk in La Jolla 1964
Szilard Medal issued in Hungary 1978
Moon photographs showing crater named after Szilard
"Royal Society Library shortly after publication of Volume II"
SOUND RECORDINGS
Stenorette Magnetic Recording Tape
With Albert Rosenfeld. Memorial Hospital, Room 812 - Reels 1 - 4 1960
Memoirs dictated for Saturday Evening Post 1960
L.S. Interview from early Budapest through 1962 ca. 1963 May
Reel/Cassette Tapes
Trude Weiss Szilard interviewed by Harold Keen at the Jewish Community Center 1980
After dinner speech at Pugwash, edited by John Kaar 1957 August 7
Leo Szilard, "Bomb stalemate." From Livingston 1958 January 16
Side 1: After dinner speech at Pugwash, edited by John Kaar. Side 2: Duplicate of Side 1, and Letter to New York Times on health insurance 1957 August 7-8
Dr. Szilard reading from Voice of the Dolphins
Leo Szilard and woman speaking in Hungarian undated
Questions following speech "Are we on the road to war?" at Harvard Law School forum 1961 November 17
LP Record
Leo Szilard: Inventor of the Atomic Bomb. 2-record set, 2 copies. George Garabedian Production 1984
FILM AND VIDEO
"Professor Szilard [Doquene] from 'Man Tomorrow'" - BBC (film) 1963 November 15
Special Event Commemorating Life and Work of Leo Szilard: Dedication of Szilard Papers to UC San Diego Library & Reception at UCSD Library. Also includes, KPBS "The Man behind the Bomb: Postscript" (VHS)
Small World - CBS Special With Edward R. Murrow featuring Leo Szilard 1960
Small World - Complete broadcast version (VHS)
Small World - Outakes (film)
Ads taken out of Part 1
ARTIFACTS
UCSD Library ephemera relating to donation of Szilard Papers 1985
Eyeglasses
Name tag, rubber address stamp, keys
New York Times framed testimonial 1964 June 1
Wallets
Slide rules
Pocket scale
Academic hood
NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS
Miscellaneous clippings
Miscellaneous clippings
Miscellaneous clippings
Miscellaneous clippings
Miscellaneous clippings
Miscellaneous clippings
1945 December, 1946 January-March
Accessions Processed in 2000
CORRESPONDENCE
Blackett, Patrick M.S. - An exchange of telegrams with Victor Weisskopf 1939
Crick, F.H.C. - Unsigned typescript carbon to Jonas Salk 1963
Department of Health, Education and Welfare. Public Health Service. National Institutes of Health 1959 - 1964
Einstein, Albert, 1939 & 1955. Unsigned carbon copies and photocopies of Szilard's letters, in German with published English translations. Includes photocopy of 1955 holograph letter from Einstein to J. Nehru, in German
Geisel, Theodor S. - Unsigned carbon copy of Szilard letter 1964
Groves, Leslie R., 1945. Includes a report by Lord Cherwell on a conversation he had with Szilard in Washington, May 1943
Jamaica. Ministry of Finance (N. N. Nethersole) 1955
Joliot-Curie, Frederic 1939
Kennedy, John Fitzgerald 1960
Khrushchev, Nikita 1960 - 1962
Roosevelt, Franklin D. - Draft Szilard letter undated
Szilard, Gertrude Weiss - [Photocopies]
Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America - College Retirement Equities Fund 1963 - 1964
WRITINGS BY LEO SZILARD
Conversation with K on October 5, [1960] - "Recorded from memory on October 9 on the basis of notes made on the day of the conversation." Also includes clipping from Pravda, October 6, 1960
In Peconic aufgesetzte Formulierung - [Draft of Aug. 2, 1939]. Typed transcription of the German text Szilard wrote in Peconic on the second visit [with Einstein]
Memoranda - Photocopies and carbon copies 1956 - 1964
Petition to the President of the United States July 17, 1945
"Crosby's Column: Plea to Abolish War" - Szilard's contribution to John Crosby's column in the Herald Tribune, [July 13, 1962]
Uber die chemischen Grundlagen der Vererbung - Lecture given at the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker, October 7, 1957. Includes letter from B. Helferich dated October 19, 1957
ARTICLES, PROJECTS AND PROGRAMS ON SZILARD
Articles On Szilard
Asimov, Isaac. "The Manhattan Project: And Then Albert Einstein Wrote a Letter to President Roosevelt..." 1972
Bernstein, Barton
"Leo Szilard: Giving Peace a Chance in the Nuclear Age" 1987
"The Unsung Father of the A-Bomb" 1985
Bess, Michael
"The Hidden Sound of Things Approaching: Leo Szilard and the 'Problem of Peace', 1945-1964" - Term paper written for History 285B, Prof. Jay, [Institution not indicated] March 20, 1982
"Leo Szilard: Scientist, Activist, Visionary" 1985
"Rebels Against the Cold War: Four Intellectuals Who Campaigned to Recast World Politics..." - Leo Szilard (U.S.A.), E.P. Thompson (England), Louise Weiss (France), Danilo Dolci (Italy) 1989
Feld, Bernard T
"The Dilemma of Deterrence" - Editorial, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientist 1978
"Thirty Years After Hiroshima, Or Rethinking the Unthinkable" - Author's popular version of paper: FA-2, issued as press release at the Spring Meeting of the American Physical Society April 28-May 1, 1975
Goldhaber, Maurice. "The Nuclear Photoelectric Effect and Remarks on Higher Multipole Transitions..." - Presented at the Symposium on the History of Nuclear Physics, University of Minnesota May 18-21, 1997
Gruber, Carol S. "Manhattan Project Maverick: The Case of Leo Szilard" - Includes typescript draft 1983
H-Bomb: "Rules" for Nuclear War 1960
Hungarian language articles on Leo Szilard - Pal, P.G. "A Beke Fizikusa", Pal, P.B. "75 Eve Szuletett Szilard Leo" and H. Miklos, "Szilard Leo"
Lanouette, William
"Bumbling Toward the Bomb" 1989
Genius in the Shadows: A Biography of Leo Szilard - Photocopies of publishers announcements, published reviews and citations to reviews of Lanouette's biography 1993
Lennox, E.S. "Leo Szilard - Biologist" - Photocopy of a typescript text of a talk, dated June 13, 1964
Miscellaneous articles that mention Leo Szilard 1969 - 1983
Miscellaneous newspaper clippings that mention Szilard - Photocopies 1960 - 1984
Rosenfeld, Albert. "This Was Leo Szilard" 1964
Stone, Jeremy J., et al. "Atomic Spies?: The Implosion of the Sudoplatov Charges" 1994
Zurcher, Andrew E. "Leo Szilard: Gadfly in the Atomic Soup" 1993
Projects And Programs On Szilard
Leo Szilard and the Council for a Livable World 1962 - 1972
Leo Szilard Award of the Forum on Physics and Society. American Physical Society - Correspondence, photocopies of press releases, announcements of recipients. Includes "Scientists and Public Policy, Help or Hindrance?" a response given by the 1976 Award recipient, Richard L. Garwin 1975 - 1978
Leo Szilard Centenary. International Seminar, Eotvos University, Budapest February 9, 1998
Commemorative medal 1998
Commemorative postage stamp, Hungary 1998
Commemorative telephone card, Hungary 1997
Photocopies of announcement, invitation, program. Also includes photocopies of presentations, "Leo Szilard: A Comic and Cosmic Wit by W. Lanouette, "Remembering Leo Szilard's Contribution to the World by G.T. Seaborg and B. Wolfe, "Leo Szilard as a Philospher of Science by D. Grandy, and "Personal Family Recollections" by J. Silard 1998
Poster 1998
Leo Szilard documentary project, "Szilard" - Draft #3, one hour script. Includes correspondence and promotional material July 1988
Leo Szilard, "The Man Behind the Bomb: A Postscript with Gertrude Weiss Szilard" - Transcript of a half-hour television interview program for KPBS-TV, San Diego
"Man Behind the Bomb" - Television from Japan series, NHK International. Includes photocopies of a description of the Japanese television series and program listings 1980
Abgangszeugnis. Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitat zu Berlin - Academic transcript, 1921-1923
Chicago commemoration, 1946-1967 - Photocopied page of two published group photographs of the scientists who participated in the CP-1 experiment at the University of Chicago
Leo's estate file - Photocopies of notes
Silver - Notes and correspondence with Martial Frene on silver trading 1963
State of New York. Department of Taxation and Finance. Estate Tax Nonresident Affidavit
U.S. Individual Income Tax Return - Includes Congressional documents, 88th Congress, 1st Session, on tax legislation 1951
Unidentified notes