"The Voice of the Dolphins"
| Title | "The Voice of the Dolphins" |
| Year for Search | 1961 |
| Authors | Szilard, Leo(1898-1964) |
| Secondary Title | The Voice of the Dolphins and Other Stores |
| Pagination | 19-72 |
| Date Published | 1961 |
| Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
| Place Published | New York |
| Keywords | English author, German author, Hungarian author, Male author, US author |
| Annotation | A story with eutopian elements in which scientists discover how to communicate with dolphins, who are immensely more intelligent than humans. An institute is founded that uses the dolphin's ideas, which eliminates hunger, reduce population growth, and ultimately ends the possibility of nuclear war. |
| Additional Publishers | Exp. ed. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1992), 47-100. With an Introduction by Barton J. Bernstein (3-43, 175-82) and an "Afterword" by Helen Weiss (171-72). |
| Holding Institutions | MoU-St, PSt |
| Author Note | The author (1898-1964), a nuclear physicist, was born in Hungary and was educated there and in Germany, where he had moved in 1919. He moved to England in 1933 and the U.S. in 1938, where he was involved in the Manhattan Project to build an atomic bomb. |
| Full Text | 1961 Szilard, Leo (1898-1964). “The Voice of the Dolphins.” In his The Voice of the Dolphins and Other Stores (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1961), 19-72. Exp. ed. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1992), 47-100. With an Introduction by Barton J. Bernstein (3-43, 175-82) and an “Afterword” by Helen Weiss (171-72). MoU-St, PSt A story with eutopian elements in which scientists discover how to communicate with dolphins, who are immensely more intelligent than humans. An institute is founded that uses the dolphin’s ideas, which eliminates hunger, reduce population growth, and ultimately ends the possibility of nuclear war. The author, a nuclear physicist, was born in Hungary and was educated there and in Germany, where he had moved in 1919. He moved to England in 1933 and the U.S. in 1938, where he was involved in the Manhattan Project to build an atomic bomb. |
