Albert Einstein
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Albert Einstein Einstein
The episode "Einstein's Letter (July 16, 1939)" opens with two men driving on a lonely Long Island road in search of Albert Einstein, who they hope will lead an appeal to President Franklin D. Roosevelt to develop an atomic bomb. The story is told mostly from the perspective of one of the men in the car, the Hungarian-born physicist Leo Szilard, who wrote the letter sent over Einstein's signature. The date reflects how the meeting of Szilard and Einstein set off events that led to the bombing of Hiroshima and the dawn of the nuclear age.