Rich is a games journalist with 15 years' experience, beginning his career on Edge magazine before working for a wide range of outlets, including Ars Technica, Eurogamer, GamesRadar+, Gamespot, the Guardian, IGN, the New Statesman, Polygon, and Vice. He was the editor of Kotaku UK, the UK arm of Kotaku, for three years before joining PC Gamer.
, at the age of 65, and at the time his co-founder Bill Gates paid tribute to"a brilliant technologist and philanthropist who wanted to accomplish great things, and did."
This specific document is known as the Einstein-Szilard letter, as it was largely authored by Hungarian physicist Leo Szilard among others, but Einstein was chosen as the letter's signatory because of his reputation as one of the great scientific minds making it likelier Roosevelt would pay attention.
This letter played a key part in Roosevelt ordering further investigation and research funding before, three years later, the Manhattan Project and the development of the world's first nuclear weapons began. Christie's has given the letter an estimated value of between $4 million and $6 million. "Looking at the collection as a whole, you're able to see the building blocks of the most cutting-edge technology that exists today," said Devang Thakker of Christies."Whether that's the smartphone in your pocket that has billions of transistors or the watch on your wrist that you can call someone with. The technologies and discoveries represented in this collection enabled those advances.
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