The film explores the life of Enrico Fermi, a pivotal figure in atomic physics. It details his humble beginnings in Italy, his education at prestigious institutions, and his innovative contributions ...

In 1945, as the first atomic bomb exploded in the New Mexico desert, Enrico Fermi stood miles away, holding a few scraps of paper. As the shockwave rolled toward him, he dropped the papers and ...

The paradox originated in 1950, during a lunchtime conversation at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Enrico Fermi, a prominent nuclear physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project, and his colleagues ...

People waited in up to hour-long lines Wednesday in Windsor for radiation pills, not just because of a possible nuclear ...

During the summer of 1950, physicist Enrico Fermi posed a question to his colleagues over lunch, "Don't you ever wonder where everybody is?" Fermi was referring to alien life. In the 4.4 billion ...

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 ...

Roland Winston, SB’56, SM’57, PhD’63—a pioneer in solar energy, engineering, and physics—died Feb. 8 at his home in ...

December — Dr. Enrico Fermi achieves the first controlled nuclear chain reaction, with a natural uranium device moderated with graphite. Fermi conducted the process using the first demonstration ...

Responding to the claim that intelligent life must be commonplace throughout the universe, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Enrico Fermi famously asked, “Where is everybody?” With this conundrum, ...

Enrico Fermi had to cajole his friend Ettore Majorana into publishing his big idea: a modification of the Dirac equation that would have profound ramifications for particle physics. Shortly ...