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  • PABLO PARDO

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Updated Tuesday, August 4, 2020 - 3:34 PM

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It all started, as it often does, with an article in a newspaper. And, as often happens, the name of the author of the article has been forgotten, but not the name of the interviewee, or the person who read it and decided to do something about it. In this case, invent the atomic bomb. It was on September 12, 1933 . That morning, at his London home next to the British Museum, Hungarian physicist Leo Szilard read an article in which Ernest Rutherford , the 'father' of nuclear physics, claimed that the idea of ​​obtaining energy from nuclear reactions it was "nonsense" . The statement seemed frivolous to Szilard. Outraged, he did what

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