Editing Leo Szilard (section)

===Last years===
[[File:Salk Institute (5).jpg|thumb|upright|Salk Institute]]
Szilard spent his last years as a fellow of the [[Salk Institute for Biological Studies]] in the [[La Jolla]] community of [[San Diego, California]], which he had helped create.{{sfn|Lanouette|Silard|1992|pp=400–401}} Szilard founded [[Council for a Livable World]] in 1962 to deliver "the sweet voice of reason" about nuclear weapons to Congress, the White House, and the American public.<ref>{{cite web|title=Founding|url=http://livableworld.org/about/founding/|publisher=Council for a Livable World |access-date=April 7, 2020}}</ref> He was appointed a non-resident fellow there in July 1963, and became a resident fellow on April 1, 1964, after moving to San Diego in February.<ref name="Papers" /> With Trude, he lived in a bungalow on the property of the [[Hotel del Charro]]. On May 30, 1964, he died there in his sleep of a [[myocardial infarction|heart attack]]; when Trude awoke, she was unable to revive him.{{sfn|Lanouette|Silard|1992|p=477}}<ref>{{Cite news |date=1964-05-31 |title=Leo Szilard Dies; A-Bomb Physicist |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1964/05/31/archives/leo-szilard-dies-abomb-physicist.html |access-date=2025-01-19 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Union-Tribune |first=Gary Robbins {{!}} The San Diego |date=2014-02-25 |title=UCSD remembers father of A-bomb |url=https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2014/02/25/ucsd-remembers-father-of-a-bomb/ |access-date=2025-01-19 |website=San Diego Union-Tribune |language=en-US}}</ref> His remains were cremated.{{sfn|Lanouette|Silard|1992|p=479}}

His papers are in the library at the [[University of California, San Diego]].<ref name="Papers">{{cite web |url=http://libraries.ucsd.edu/speccoll/findingaids/mss0032.html |title=Leo Szilard Papers, 1898 – 1998 MSS 0032 |publisher=[[University of California in San Diego]] |access-date=May 29, 2015}}</ref> In February 2014, the library announced that it received funding from the [[National Historical Publications and Records Commission]] to digitize its collection of his papers, ranging from 1938 to 1998.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/feature/materials_documenting_birth_of_nuclear_age_to_be_digitized |title=Materials Documenting Birth of Nuclear Age to be Digitized |first=Dolores |last=Davies |access-date=May 29, 2015}}</ref>