 | Sheldon Ungar - 2010 - 228 стор.
...at a London intersection in 1933, Leo Szilard, a Hungarian-born physicist, had a brilliant insight: It suddenly occurred to me that if we could find an...element if assembled in sufficiently large mass, could sustarn a nuclear chain reaction. I didn't see at the moment just how one would go about finding such... | |
 | Michael Bess - 1993 - 364 стор.
...London street one autumn day, that he made the most momentous theoretical breakthrough of his career: [It] suddenly occurred to me that if we could find...would emit two neutrons when it absorbed one neutron, . . . [it] might become possible to set up a nuclear chain reaction, liberate energy on an industrial... | |
 | S. L. Sanger - 1995 - 284 стор.
...reaction. The year before, while walking in London and wait ing for a red light, it occurred to Szilard that "if we could find an element which is split by...assembled in sufficiently large mass, could sustain a chain reaction. " He said the thought "became sort of an obsession with me. " Working with Albert Einstein,... | |
 | Richard Rhodes - 2012 - 890 стор.
...67108868, 134217736 . . . "As the light changed to green and I crossed the street," Szilard recalls, "it . . . suddenly occurred to me that if we could...neutrons and which would emit two neutrons when it absorbs one neutron, such an element, if assembled in sufficiently large mass, could sustain a nuclear... | |
 | J. S. Medawar, David Pyke - 2001 - 322 стор.
...in Holborn, and watched the traffic lights change from red, through amber to green. He later wrote: 'It suddenly occurred to me that if we could find...neutrons and which would emit two neutrons when it absorbs one neutron, such an element, if sufficiently large mass, could sustain a nuclear chain reaction.'... | |
 | Philip A. Cusick - 2005 - 194 стор.
...multiplying chain reaction. Leo Szilard, a Hungarian/German Jewish refugee living in America, figured out that "If we could find an element which is split by...neutrons and which would emit two neutrons when it absorbs one neutron, such an element, if assembled in sufficiently large mass, could sustain a nuclear... | |
 | Vaclav Smil - 2006 - 368 стор.
...nuclear physics was wrong. Szilard's eureka came as he stopped for a streetlight on Southampton Row: could find an element which is split by neutrons and...in sufficiently large mass, could sustain a nuclear reaction. I didn't see at the moment just how one would go about finding such an element or what experiments... | |
 | Janeen Hunt - 2007 - 196 стор.
...some of its enormous energy 'As the light changed to green and I crossed the street,' Szilard recalls, 'it... suddenly occurred to me that if we could find...neutrons and which would emit two neutrons when it absorbs one neutron, such an element, if assembled in sufficiently large mass, could sustain a nuclear... | |
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it . . . suddenly occurred to me that if we could find an element which is split by neutrons and which would emit two neutrons when it absorbs one neutron, such an element, if assembled in sufficiently large mass, could sustain a nuclear chain reaction. 