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...brought a special expertise to their subject and could also produce graceful prose. NEIL POSTMAN for example, who wrote on TV pioneer Philo Farnsworth, is the author of Amusing Ourselves to Death, an acclaimed study of the impact of television on society. RICHARD RHODES, who profiled nuclear physicist Enrico Fermi, wrote a Pulitzer-prizewinning tome on the making of the atom bomb. Paleoanthropologist DONALD JOHANSON, who discovered the fossil called Lucy, had a long and bumpy relationship with the Leakey family and used this occasion to break a silence with Richard Leakey that lasted nearly two decades...
...chemistry, the 20th was the century of physics. The burgeoning science supported such transforming applications as medical imaging, nuclear reactors, atom and hydrogen bombs, radio and television, transistors, computers and lasers. Physical knowledge increased so rapidly after 1900 that theory and experiment soon divided into separate specialties. Enrico Fermi, a supremely self-assured Italian American born in Rome in 1901, was the last great physicist to bridge the gap. His theory of beta decay introduced the last of the four basic forces known in nature (gravity, electromagnetism and, operating within the nucleus of the atom, the strong force and Fermi...
...conference held two weeks ago at the Fermi Lab, Kirshner says theoretical physicists presented their theory of "quintessence," and expansionary force that would change over time...
...trivialized her achievement by referring to her nude appearance in the film Ecstasy when she was just a teenager. Nine years later, without recompense, she gave her patent to the U.S. As a refugee from a fascist state, she is in the company of Albert Einstein, Enrico Fermi and many other notable people. BURTON SEIWELL Nuremberg, Pennsylvania
Maria Spyropoulou, a fourth-year physics graduate student who worked with Michail at the Fermi Lab, described him as a gentle individual...