Enrico Fermi, his mentor, once called him “the only true genius I have ever met.” Richard Garwin, Chicago physicist who created the hydrogen bomb and worked to see it wasn't used, dead at 97 ...

Enrico Fermi asked fellow famous physicists including Edward Teller over lunch in 1950. This quandary was named Fermi's Paradox. "It's a numbers game," Jason Wright, ...

Enrico Fermi asked fellow famous physicists including Edward Teller over lunch in 1950. This quandary was named Fermi's Paradox. "It's a numbers game," Jason Wright, ...

I n 1950 the Italian physicist Enrico Fermi was discussing the possibility of intelligent alien life with his colleagues. If alien civilizations exist, he said, some should surely have had enough time ...

Back in the 1930s, the University of Rome La Sapienza was in the vanguard of quantum physics. And Enrico Fermi, who headed the Royal Physics Institute, would go on to create the world’s first nuclear ...

DTE received its original license to operate Fermi 2 from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.in 1985. “For 40 years, we’ve generated millions of megawatts of clean, reliable electricity in ...

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Three American scientists have been named by the White House as recipients of the Enrico Fermi Presidential Award. Héctor D. Abruña, Paul Alivisatos, and John H. Nuckolls were recognized for ...

Winners receive a citation signed by the president and the secretary of energy, a gold-plated medal bearing the likeness of Enrico Fermi, and an honorarium of $100,000, which will be split among ...