Word: fermi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...school do not have to fuss with the pin-pricking routines of tests and homework. There are no credits and no grades. Says Program Director Douglas Carter, 33: "This type of student will dig into things for himself." Some noted guest lecturers will spur the digging. Last week Laura Fermi, widow of Atomic Physicist Enrico Fermi, began lecturing on science for ten days. She will be followed by Novelist Betty Smith (A Tree Grows in Brooklyn), Playwright Paul Green and Secretary of Commerce Luther Hodges. A symphony orchestra, string ensemble, ballet and drama groups are already deep into rehearsals...
...pure physics. Chicago no longer has Fermi, Urey or Libby, but it does have the Enrico Fermi Institute and the off-campus Argonne National Laboratory, which it runs for the AEC on a $79 million budget (paid by AEC), compared with $68 million for the university itself. To help fill the Midwest gap in research and defense contracts. Beadle counts on a new 12.5 billion-volt synchrotron at Argonne to lure physicists. Last month NASA began building a new space lab adjoining the Fermi Institute...
Picked by the Kennedy Administration to receive the Atomic Energy Commission's $50,000 Fermi Award, given last year to Physicist Edward Teller, was J. Robert Oppenheimer, 58, director of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. The announcement and a long biography detailed Oppenheimer's contributions to the development of nuclear energy, but did not mention the 1954 hearings, after which the AEC's five commissioners voted 4-1 to declare the physicist a security risk because of "fundamental defects in his character . . . close association with Communists . . . falsehoods, evasions and misrepresentations." After all the years...
...wine, women and nuclear physics," says an American student at Germany's most notably nuclear university. Before Hitler, George August University in Goötingen harbored some of the world's great nuclear names-Born. Hahn, Heisenberg-and hatched a Who's Who of U.S. science -Fermi, Compton, Teller, Oppenheimer. After the war, as one of Germany's few relatively unbombed universities, Göttingen got quickly to work restoring its reputation, but its greatest days probably lie ahead. Last week surveyors slogged through spring mud to measure Göttingen for a mammoth expansion...
...those schöne jahren (beautiful years), brilliant minds and crackling chalk-talks lured young scholars like Werner Heisenberg. a future Nobelman who wandered about in lederhosen, and Italy's Enrico Fermi, future U.S. father of the Abomb. U.S. Physicist Robert Oppenheimer, winner last week of the AEC's Fermi Award (see PEOPLE), got his Ph.D. at Göttingen in 1927. Another Göttingen recruit: Hungary's Edward Teller, future U.S. father of the H-bomb...