Word: fermi
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Historians differ about which battles were really decisive and about which great men of history were really great. Few will differ about Italian-born Physicist Enrico Fermi, a great man of science who achieved the first nuclear chain reaction and thereby initiated the Atomic Age. This week in Chicago, Enrico Fermi, 53, died of cancer. If he had lived a few years longer, medical techniques growing out of his own discoveries might have rid him of his fatal disease...
Squash-Court Drama. The high point of Fermi's career is one of those rare events that will be described again and again as long as men are interested in the history of their species. It happened on Dec. 2, 1942, in a squash court under the stands of the University of Chicago's football stadium. An international group of physicists watched with some apprehension a massive, dead-black structure of graphite bricks with uranium spotted through it. Fermi was in charge. His discoveries in Italy about neutron behavior (which won him the Nobel Prize...
...Atomic Energy Commission announced that the first award of its special $25,000 prize for "especially meritorious contributions" in nuclear physics will go to the University of Chicago's ailing Dr. Enrico Fermi, 54, Italian-born Nobel Prizewinner (1938), who presided over the first controlled nuclear chain reaction in 1942, thereby ushering in the Atomic...
...Attack. Among those who have attacked the book since publication are former AEC Chairman Gordon Dean and many leading atomic scientists, including Enrico Fermi and Hans Bethe. The comment of Dr. I. I. Rabi, present chairman of the AEC's General Advisory Committee, is a sample: "A sophomoric science-fiction tale, to be taken seriously only by a psychiatrist...
...Laura Fermi knew nothing of his work -only that her famous husband was receding day by day into deeper mystery. He made long trips to Chicago for no announced reason. The friends whom he brought to her house were as silent about their work as he. When the Fermis moved to Chicago, all that she knew was that he worked at a "metallurgical laboratory" (where no metallurgists worked). She asked no questions. She brought up her children, kept her overworked husband comfortable, laughed at him affectionately when laughter was in order (once he buried a "treasure" of currency...