David N. Schwartz is the author of The Last Man Who Knew Everything: The Life and Times of Enrico Fermi, Father of the Nuclear Age. You can find him on Twitter at: @dschwa8059. I have been living with ...

Authors looking to mine science history can find no richer lode than physics in the early- to mid-20th century. New subatomic discoveries and the groundbreaking theories of relativity and quantum ...

The Last Man Who Knew Everything: The Life and Times of Enrico Fermi, Father of the Nuclear Age. By David Schwartz. Basic Books; 451 pages; $35 and £27.99. JUST before daybreak on July 16th 1945 ...

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In 1942 Enrico Fermi led a team of scientists at the University of Chicago in creating the world’s first man made nuclear reactor, Chicago Pile 1, and first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction, ...

The granddaughter of Manhattan Project physicist Enrico Fermi toured the reactor Tuesday that Fermi helped engineer and troubleshoot, Hanford's historic B Reactor. Fermi, the Italian physicist ...

Marina Cobal reviews The Pope of Physics: Enrico Fermi and the Birth of the Atomic Age by Gino Segrè and Bettina Hoerlin The Via Panisperna boys. From left: Oscar D’Agostino, Emilio Segrè, Edoardo ...

Enrico Fermi tore a large sheet of paper into small pieces and dropped them. A few seconds later, the pieces were blown a short distance in midair and landed some eight feet away. Fermi paced the ...

The Nobel Prize winning physicist Enrico Fermi at a blackboard. Fermi, born in Italy, created the first sustained nuclear reaction in a squash court at the University ...

Enrico Fermi was one of the greatest physicists of all time. Take a look at the history of any branch of physics, and he was there, helping things along. Take a look at his most famous portrait and he ...

March 28, 2023 — The White House today announced that Darleane C. Hoffman and Gabor A. Somorjai are the recipients of the Enrico Fermi Presidential Award. Darleane C. Hoffman, Ph.D. is a nuclear ...