Word: fermi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Consolidated Electronics, which starts out with $90 million in sales. In 1958 the Antitrust Division cited Philips among a dozen companies accused of freezing smaller U.S. TV manufacturers out of the Canadian market. Philips also has a suit against the U.S. charging that the AEC infringed Philips' Enrico Fermi patents taken out in long-ago 1934-39 and covering aspects of radioisotope production. Both suits are still pending...
...Chamberlain was born in San Francisco, is on leave this school season to lecture at Harvard. Dr. Segre, an associate of the great Enrico Fermi, was born in Tivoli, Italy. Like Fermi, he came to the U.S. before World War II because of disgust with Italian Fascism. Both he and Dr. Chamberlain worked at Los Alamos on the atomic bomb, and Chamberlain helped explode the first test bomb at Alamogordo...
After receiving his doctorate under Enrico Fermi at the University of Chicago in 1949, Chamberlain joined the California faculty, becoming an assistant professor in 1950 and full professor...
...award, which consists of a gold and silver medal and a stipend of $5000, was initiated in 1796 for the purpose of encouraging and honoring outstanding discoveries in the area of physics then known as "heat and light." Previous winners include Enrico Fermi, Edwin Langmuir, and Thomas Edison...
...well as sheer failure. Not only does the pressure of security promote mediocrity by denying the opportunity for free criticism, basically it stifles the growth of education in these fields because of the scientist's difficulty in separating the classified and non-classified in his mind. For example, Enrico Fermi was forced to discontinue lecturing on atomic theory after the war because he felt that he could not help but divulge classified material...