Part one of term paper
You are driving along, you stop at a red light, you are probably thinking about what you will have for dinner, but while Dr. Leo Szilard was stopped at a red light he came up with an idea that would destroy two cities, kill hundreds of thousands of people, shock the world and make history - the atomic bomb. One hundred thousand people worked ...

Part two of term paper
... light changed it occurred to Szilard that "he needed to find one element that could be split by neutrons, sustain a chain reaction and thereby liberate incredible amounts of energy." The Greek word atomos means anything that can't be split. Leo Szilard was thrown out of Ernest Rutherford's office, the director of the Lavendish Laboratory at Cambridge University during a meeting where he was explaining his idea of the chain reaction. Years later in 1939 the atom was split and Dr. Leo Szilard would p ...