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Alexander Sachs (August 1, 1893 – June 23, 1973) was an American economist and banker. In October 1939 he delivered the Einstein–Szilard letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt , suggesting that nuclear-fission research ought to be pursued with a view to possibly constructing nuclear weapons , should they prove feasible, in ...
The stage was now set for Szilard's intermediary, Alexander Sachs, a vice president of the Lehman Corporation and a friend of President Roosevelt's. Sachs, a Russian‐born economist and student...
Jul 19, 2023 · Einstein's warnings were read to Roosevelt by a man named Alexander Sachs, who also read out other warnings about such a bomb to the president, The New York Times reported at the time.
Jun 24, 1973 · Alexander Sachs, a Russian born economist and the man who first interested President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the possibilities of the atomic bomb, died yesterday at the Columbia ‐Presbyterian...
Alexander Sachs was an American economist and banker. In October 1939 he delivered the Einstein–Szilard letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, suggesting that nuclear-fission research ought to be pursued with a view to possibly constructing nuclear weapons, should they prove feasible, in view of the likelihood that Nazi Germany would do so.
Oct 13, 2011 · This August 2, 1939 letter was personally delivered to the President on October 11, 1939 (the outbreak of the war intervened) by Alexander Sachs, a longtime economic adviser to FDR. After learning of the letter’s contents, President Roosevelt told his military adviser General Edwin M. Watson, “This requires action.”
On October 11, 1939, Alexander Sachs, Wall Street economist and longtime friend and unofficial advisor to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, met with the President to discuss a letter written by Albert Einstein the previous August.
