Word: fermi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...worked most closely on the nuclear chain reactions that made the atomic bomb possible, one, Enrico Fermi, died of cancer. In 1959 the other, Leo Szilard, went to his doctors with a bladder cancer; they could not remove it all. Said Szilard then: "I don't expect to live, but I hope to be active for a few months and perhaps a year." Last week Dr. Szilard, 64, physicist turned biologist and crusader for the abolition of war, quietly noted that he has now gone two full years free of cancer symptoms. "I feel fine," he said...
Szilard, who, with Enrico Fermi, the first sustained nuclear reaction led directly to the development of bomb, now devotes full time...
Planned Parenthood. Although he is a registered Democrat, Seaborg has been politically passive, served both Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower as an adviser. In 1959 the AEC gave him the $50,000 Enrico Fermi Award-the highest honor the Government can bestow on an atomic scientist. Last January, four days before he took office as President, John Kennedy appointed Seaborg chairman of the AEC-the highest federal administrative post a U.S. scientist has ever attained...
...contributions to nuclear and theoretical physics, to peaceful uses of atomic energy, and to the security of the U.S.," the Atomic Energy Commission last week gave its Enrico Fermi Award (gold medal and $50,000) to Physicist Hans Albrecht Bethe of Cornell. Both the honor and the honorarium were deserved; seldom has an immigrant done more for his adopted country...
...Until a decade ago, the Swedish Nobel Prizes (1960 value: $43,627) were almost alone in their class. They still have the most prestige, but other prizes are richer. The Ford Atoms for Peace Award brings $75,000 (latest winner Sir John Cockcroft). Next comes the $50,000 Enrico Fermi Award. And to raise the ante, all bona fide prize money, except when given by a company to an employee, is tax free...