In 1945, as the first atomic bomb exploded in the New Mexico desert, Enrico Fermi stood miles away ... Not bad for a back-of-the-envelope calculation. Fermi, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist ...

Italian-born physicist Enrico Fermi won the Nobel Prize in 1938 "for his work with ... Later, he focused his attention on high energy physics and cosmic rays. The synthetic element fermium was ...

After receiving his B.S. there, he worked with Enrico Fermi at the University ... In fact in 1969, the same year he won the Nobel Prize in physics, Gell-Mann helped organize an environmental ...

(JTA) — Jack Steinberger, a researcher who shared the 1988 Nobel Prize in physics with two ... century’s leading physicists, such as Enrico Fermi and J. Robert Oppenheimer, the father of ...

Between 1946 and 1950, he studied at the University of Chicago under Enrico Fermi, a Nobel laureate ... In 1957, Lee was awarded the Nobel Prize in physics together with Chen-Ning Yang for work ...

Fermi was a Nobel Prize winning physicist famous for quickly estimating answers to questions, like how many heart beats are ...