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Jim Carr writes:
> Just a program note...
> ...NOVA on PBS is featuring a story about Leo 
> Szilard and his involvement in the development of the bomb.

Thanks.  This is great; I just hope they do the subject justice.

> Szilard is less well known for his scientific contributions.
> Perhaps the most important was his effort to get truely pure
> graphite for cross section tests...

This is of course true and very important, but for me, his really
epoch-making discovery was the nuclear chain reaction, which
he theorized, and later experimentally verfied.  When he saw the
results of his neutron multiplication experiment, and realized that
there was enough multiplication for a self-sustaining reaction, he said
"I think the world is in for a very bad time".  How right he was.

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