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This semester he will be jetting around the country to oversee some of his research, in addition to lecturing three times a week. Part of the plane hopping involves a trip to the Fermi Laboratory in Chicago every other weekend...
More recent and contemporary figures include Perry Como, Dean Martin, Tony Bennett, Jerry Vale, Liza Minelli, and Frank Sinatra. The atomic bomb was in part the work of Enrico Fermi who achieved the first nuclear chain reaction in America and who was present at the Los Alamos testing grounds. Fermi received the coveted Nobel Prize for Physics...
...physicist. As head of the University of Gottingen's prestigious Institute of Theoretical Physics in the pre-Nazi era, he was one of the pillars of the flourishing German scientific community. A brilliant teacher, he attracted many of the great names of the atomic era-Oppenheimer, Teller, Fermi-to Göttingen's lecture halls and laboratories. Equally communicative outside the university, he produced a flood of books and essays to unravel the complex new physics for an uncomprehending public. But Born, who died in Göttingen last week at the age of 87, is perhaps best...
...this sense, the danger does exist. The consequences of the worst accident imaginable were, in fact, projected by the University of Michigan's Engineering Research Institute in a study of the Enrico Fermi Plant near Detroit. In 1966, the Fermi reactor was disabled by an accident that released no radiation, and it is still closed. According to the study, if all the radioactive material contained in the Fermi plant were blown into the air during a thermal inversion, 67,000 people could die of radiation poisoning. Even if only 1% of the radiation were released, there would...
...wrong place, at the wrong time. In 1938, outside Berlin's Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Chemistry, Nazis paraded in the streets. Inside, German Chemist Otto Hahn patiently probed the secrets of the atom. He repeated an experiment that had been tried by half a dozen researchers, including Enrico Fermi in Rome and Irene Joliot-Curie in Paris...