Among them was Enrico Fermi, a giant in the fields ... The cartoon discussed by the group at Los Alamos. Photo: Alan Dunn/New Yorker Well, Fermi pointed out, this was a very logical hypothesis.

Photo by Bortzells Esselte, courtesy AIP Emilio Segre Visual Archives. Enrico Fermi (1901-1954) left Italy in 1938 to receive the Nobel Prize for physics in Sweden. He never went back. He and his ...

The eminent physicist Enrico Fermi was visiting his colleagues at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico that summer, and the mealtime conversation turned to the subject of UFOs. Very ...