The Curious Wavefunction
Physicists in Biology; And Other Quirks of the Genomic Age
December 10th, 2012 |
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Leo Szilard – brilliant, peripatetic Hungarian physicist, habitué of hotel lobbies, soothsayer without peer – first grasped the implications of a nuclear chain reaction in 1933 while stepping off the curb at a traffic light in London. Szilard has many distinctions to his name; not only did he file a patent for the first nuclear reactor [...]
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