Word: fermi
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...physicist who quits big business for the academy, and My Brother, My Enemy (1952) renewed the conflict between hard cash and gentle idealism. Author Wilson, now 47, first turned to professional writing before World War II, while working for a doctorate in physics at Columbia University under famed Enrico Fermi. Days he measured the mes on; nights he ground out magazine stories and suspense novels (Footsteps Behind Her, Stalk the Hunter}. Finding his dou ble life profitable but pointless, Wilson ended both careers, later moved to Martha's Vineyard as a year-round resident to write "of serious...
Emilio Gino Segrč, 55, was a promising young Italian engineering student when he was invited to become the late great Physicist Enrico Fermi's first graduate student. The invitation paid off. Fermi and Segrč collaborated with three other Italian scientists in perfecting the slow neutron process that was essential to the production of the atomic bomb. In 1938 Segrč came to the U.S., and six years later, like Fermi, became a U.S. citizen. Although he feels certain that most scientists do their best work before they are 30, he excepts himself, continues with his Nobel-prizewinning work in the weird...
Cosmic rays have long been a fascinating and controversial subject among scientists. It is generally agreed that most low-speed cosmic rays are particles shot out of the sun, but that those with higher energy must come from somewhere else. The late Enrico Fermi thought they came from interstellar magnetic fields which gradually speed up protons and other charged particles moving between the stars of the Milky Way galaxy (the earth itself is a smallish satellite to one of the smaller stars in this galaxy). But this theory could not account for rays whose energy is above a critical limit...