“It’s about being able to step back and look at your result. Does it make sense?” says Stefan Funk, a particle physicist who ...

Enrico Fermi thought so – and he was a pretty smart guy ... Nonetheless, there are scientists who deem them all too contrived and unlikely to work in every case. Will all the aliens really find ...

Fermi's work led to the first controlled nuclear chain ... on Fermi's legacy and contributions to physics. Keywords Enrico Fermi, World War II, nuclear energy, atomic bomb, Albert Einstein ...

You probably think it was Enrico Fermi’s CP-1 pile built under the ... Any fission reactor basically works the same. An unstable atom like uranium or plutonium breaks apart, creating fast ...

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 ...

Italian-born physicist Enrico Fermi won the Nobel Prize in 1938 "for his work with artificial radioactivity produced by neutrons, and for nuclear reactions brought about by slow neutrons." ...

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 ...

Enrico Fermi had to cajole his friend Ettore Majorana ... and his equation is central to recent work not only in neutrino physics, supersymmetry and dark matter, but also on some exotic states ...