Héctor D. Abruña, Paul Alivisatos, and John H. Nuckolls have been named as this year's recipients of the Enrico Fermi ...

Enrico Fermi (; 29 September 1901 – 28 November 1954) was an Italian physicist, best known for his work on Chicago Pile-1 (the first nuclear reactor), and for his contributions to the ...

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 ...

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 ...

University of Chicago President Paul Alivisatos has been named one of this year’s winners of the Enrico Fermi Presidential ...

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 ...

University of Chicago President Paul Alivisatos has been named one of this year’s winners of the Enrico Fermi Presidential Award, a prestigious science and technology honor given by the U.S ...

THE Nobel Prize for Physics for 1938 has been awarded to Prof. E. Fermi, professor of theoretical physics in the University of Rome, and his work in connexion with artificial radioactivity induced ...