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ATOMIC AGE "I Expect to Sleep" From Rome, where he was on a lecture tour, one of the world's top nuclear physicists launched a prediction into the suspenseful calm with which the U.S. responded to the news of Russia's atomic explosion. Professor Enrico Fermi made the obvious but often forgotten point that Russia's Alamogordo does not, by any means, give her automatic parity with the U.S. Quantity, quality and means of delivery are crucially important. If the U.S. keeps ahead in these respects. Fermi could see no war for 20 years...
...chose Oppenheimer to head the new Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory. It was probably the best decision that Groves ever made. Oppie, who had never even been chairman of a physics faculty, became top executive of a $60 million company with 4,500 workers, including such eminent physicists as Enrico Fermi and Niels Bohr...
...Science cannot escape its social responsibilities," sighed Atomic Physicist Enrico Fermi, "but it was so nice when science was considered unimportant and was not in the spotlight...
Physicist Enrico Fermi, Chicago Nobel Prizewinner who started the first nuclear chain reaction, said last week: "I know of nothing that can be developed into a radioactive cloud without the bomb." Other physicists in a position to know preferred to keep their mouths shut...
They shooed the photographers away and the radio men took over. They unveiled the bronze plaque on which was written: "On December 2, 1942 man achieved here the first self-sustaining chain reaction and thereby initiated the controlled release of nuclear energy." Fermi said a few shy words. Iowa's Bill Waymack, representing the Atomic Energy Commission, also said something. The crowd of 150 didn't hear what they said because the public-address system got fouled up. The red-faced man came back out of the excavation again and asked: "They get it all fixed...