Word: fermi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...choice of J. Robert Oppenheimer as recipient of the Enrico Fermi Award by the Atomic Energy Commission is as welcome as it is overdue. As director of the Manhattan project Dr. Oppenheimer contributed significantly to the development of atomic energy. Both as a scientist and as an administrator he performed valuable and important services...
Norman F. Ramsey, professor of Physics, yesterday denied that there was any political significance in the Atomic Energy Commission's decision to present the 1963 Fermi Award to J. Robert Oppenheimer...
...Threat of War. A total of 42 people (including one woman, Physicist Laura Woods) were present at the squash-court experiment. Last week 27 of the survivors -Fermi and several others are dead-gathered in Washington to observe the 20th birthday of the Atomic Age. At a floodlit ceremony outside the White House, President Kennedy spoke to the group. "This development which has played a significant role in our history and in our lives," he said, "can be either good or bad depending on the use to which it is put. It is the obligation of those who bear positions...
...meters clicked dizzily. "This is going to do it," said Fermi, working his slide rule. Recalls Weil: "I had to watch Fermi every second, waiting for orders. His face was motionless. His eyes darted from one dial to another. His expression was so calm it was hard. But suddenly his whole face broke into a broad smile." "The reaction is self-sustaining." Fermi announced. "The curve is exponential." Instead of leveling off, the rate of radiation was continuing to accelerate-a chain reaction was under way inside the pile...
...Fermi let the reaction run on for 28 minutes, then ordered it stopped. Hungarian-born Physicist Eugene Wigner brought out a bottle of Chianti. Fermi sent out for paper cups. Nobody offered a toast-the moment was too solemn for that. Wrote Physicist Samuel K. Allison, a top Fermi assistant, in a recent article: "All of us in the laboratory knew that with the advent of the chain reaction the world would never be the same again...