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Leo Szilard was born in Austri Hungary in 2/11/1898.
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He followed his fathers footstep's and became a civil engineer student at Technical University in Budapest.
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After being in college for only one year, Leo Szilard joined Austro-Hungarian Army.
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Leo Szilard was not in the War form long after getting out from illness.
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tranferring from Technical University of Budapest, Leo went to Technische Hochschule in Charlottenburg, Germany
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He earned his Ph.D. in Physicics at the University of Berlin.
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Szilard became an instructor, or privatdozent, at the University of Berlin. He published a paper, "On the Decrease of Entropy in a Thermodynamic System by the Intervention of Intelligent Beings,"
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Szilard and several other scientists convinced Albert Einstein to write to President Franklin D. Roosevelt about building the atomic bomb.
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Leo Szilard conducted research at the University of Chicago.
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Leo Szilard conducted research at the University of Chicago from 1942 to 1945
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He died in La Jolla San Diego