Past Event
Thursday, November 2, 2023, 4 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Leo Szilard’s Legacy: Science in the Public Interest Today
All over the world from, San Diego
Cost: Free
Join biographer William Lanouette and geneticist Matthew Meselson as they celebrate the 125th anniversary of Leo Szilard’s birth and the Szilard archive held in UC San Diego Library’s Special Collections & Archives.
Lanouette and Meselson will describe Szilard’s contrarian approach to science and public policy. Feli Hartung, a U.S. History Ph.D. candidate at UC San Diego, will moderate a Q&A session with Lanouette and Meselson after their presentations.