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Historians differ about which battles were really decisive and about which great men of history were really great. Few will differ about Italian-born Physicist Enrico Fermi, a great man of science who achieved the first nuclear chain reaction and thereby initiated the Atomic Age. This week in Chicago, Enrico Fermi, 53, died of cancer. If he had lived a few years longer, medical techniques growing out of his own discoveries might have rid him of his fatal disease...
...Atomic Energy Commission announced that the first award of its special $25,000 prize for "especially meritorious contributions" in nuclear physics will go to the University of Chicago's ailing Dr. Enrico Fermi, 54, Italian-born Nobel Prizewinner (1938), who presided over the first controlled nuclear chain reaction in 1942, thereby ushering in the Atomic...
...five-year jail sentence for dodging 1947-49 income taxes, stood in grave danger of having his wings further clipped. Because he refused to testify about his activities in the U.S. before 1925 (when he became a U.S. citizen), a federal district attorney asked a U.S. court to denaturalize Italian-born Costello immediately...
Hottest Thing in France. Italian-born Motorman Pigozzi, 56, has had a supercharged rise in the French auto business. He left the scrap business in 1926 to become the French distributor of Italy's Fiat cars. When he ran into import and tariff troubles, he took over a small assembly plant in France. In 1934, after assembling 32,000 Fiats, he bought out a bankrupt auto factory near Paris for $300,000 and organized Simca (Sociéte Industrielle de Mécanique et Carrosserie Automobile). Gradually he loosened his ties with Fiat, and today Simca, while it still...
Died. Giulio Gelardi, 80, Italian-born onetime manager of some of the world's most famed international hotels (New York's Waldorf-Astoria, London's Claridge's and Savoy, Rome's Excelsior); of cancer; in London...