Word: fermi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...five scientists who applied for the patent had escaped from Mussolini's Italy and come to the U.S. Soon both they and their patent vanished underground. The slow neutron process was the basis of the early nuclear reactors; without it, there could have been no plutonium. Enrico Fermi saw his neutrons fire up the first reactor at Chicago...
...group of Italian scientists led by Enrico Fermi applied for a U.S. patent on a process that looked, at the time, about as impractical as a bridge of butterflies' wings. While working together in Rome, they had discovered that neutrons (themselves discovered in 1932) could be slowed down by passage through water or paraffin. Thus slowed, the neutrons were much more likely to be captured by other elements, making them radioactive. A friend of the scientists, Gabriel M. Giannini,* thought the process might have commercial value, but practically no one else did. Such great U.S. companies as Du Pont...
Featured will be addresses by John H. Van Vieck, Dean of the Division of Applied Science and retiring president of the Society and Nobel Prize winner Edward M. Purcell professor of Physics. In addtion, the Society's new president, Chicago University's Enrico Fermi, also a Nobel Prize winner will be installed...
Highlighting the three day convention will be addresses by John H. Van Vleck, Dean of the Division of Applied Sciences and retiring president of the Society, and his successor, Nobel Prize winning atomic physicist Enrico Fermi of the University of Chicago...
...squash court below the west stands of Stagg Field at the University of Chicago, 42 scientists stared intently at a strange pile of graphite bricks. The time was 9:45 on a morning just ten years ago. Italian-born Nobel Laureate Enrico Fermi gave the signal for the experiment to begin. A cadmium control rod was slowly drawn from position. Geiger counters clicked. Control lights flashed. The pen in an automatic recording device moved over graph paper in a rising curve. At 3:45 Dr. Fermi calmly announced: "The reaction is self-sustaining; the curve is exponential." A chain reaction...