Word: fermi
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...Energy Commission insisted that the controlling factor was Weston's proximity to existing scientific centers. After all, the new atom smasher will be situated just 17 miles from the AEC's sprawling Argonne National Laboratory and less than an hour's drive from Chicago, where Enrico Fermi first split the atom in 1942. In a sense, the AEC's plum has fallen near the tree...
Roughly half of this considerable market last week came under the control of a single firm, Source Perrier. Perrier (280 million bottles annually), which had already acquired Contrexéville (300 million), and sells seven smaller brands, announced the acquisition of the Compagnie Fermière de Vichy (250 million). Gurgled Perrier Chairman Gustave Leven: "We have become the biggest mineral-water firm in the world...
...specific topics to be discussed have not yet been determined. Dakin said, but the group is considering a careful examination of five or six important scientific papers. Holton yesterday mentioned a study on nuclear physics by Enrico Fermi and a paper on relativity by Albert Einstein as possible topics...
...industry, politics and science is endless. There were Steel Magnate Andrew Carnegie (Scotland), Fur Trader John Jacob Astor (Germany), Inventor Alexander Graham Bell (Scotland), the Du Fonts from France and Yeast Tycoon Charles L. Fleischmann from Hungary. German-born Albert Einstein, Hungarian-born Edward Teller and Italian-born Enrico Fermi helped the U.S. to unlock the atom's secrets. There have been more immigrant musicians than one can shake a baton at, from Irving Berlin (Russia) and Victor Herbert (Ireland) to Artur Rubinstein (Poland) and Dimitri Mitropoulos (Greece...
Fresh material and personal glimpses of the men involved bring the familiar narrative to life: Einstein absently losing his way to the lavatory in Los Alamos, Fermi cycling his way to work, the sweat-pearled faces of the scientists as they eased the nuclear core into the bomb case and then took their places to watch the results of their own handi work: a sudden fire hotter and brighter than...