Among those recruited by Oppenheimer to join the team was Italian physicist Enrico Fermi. It has been claimed he was first to split the atom during experiments in Rome in 1934, when he broke a ...

Oppenheimer then was denied security clearance, but he was partially restored to public honor in 1963 when President Johnson awarded him the AEC's Enrico Fermi Award for his "far-ranging" and ...

Is there some evidence suggesting that humans are the Galaxy’s only intelligent species? Enrico Fermi thought so – and he was a pretty smart guy. Could he be right? In 1950, the famous physicist made ...