Where did Leo Szilard conceive the nuclear chain reaction?
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Leo Szilard conceived the nuclear chain reaction while in Germany in the early 1930s. He was working as a physicist at the University of Berlin at the time, and he was one of the first scientists to realize the potential of nuclear energy. Szilard's work on the nuclear chain reaction led to the development of the atomic bomb.
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