This prompted Fermi to ask what was (to him) an obvious question: “where is everybody?” In a galaxy assumed to be filled with ...

News 12’s Kurt Fischer asked the kids what are they going to do with their new supplies. “Go to school with it and pack lunch,” says Jiyaan Wills a student at Enrico Fermi.

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 ...

Three American scientists have been named by the White House as recipients of the Enrico Fermi Presidential Award. Héctor D. Abruña, Paul Alivisatos, and John H. Nuckolls were recognized for ...

The film discusses the pivotal role of physicist Enrico Fermi during World War II, particularly in the development of nuclear energy and the atomic bomb. It details his collaboration with other ...

In the summer of 1950, the physicist Enrico Fermi and some colleagues at the Los Alamos Lab in New Mexico were walking to lunch, and casually discussing flying saucers - as you do - when Fermi ...

Enrico Fermi, Italian-American physicist, received the 1938 Nobel Prize in physics for identifying new elements and discovering nuclear reactions by his method of nuclear irradiation and bombardment.

(Image credit: Getty Images / Anton Petrus) One night about 60 years ago, physicist Enrico Fermi looked up into the sky and asked, "Where is everybody?" He was talking about aliens.

Enrico Fermi had been an integral part of the Italian scientific firmament in the 1920s and the 1930s.

He served as a science adviser, focusing on nuclear deterrence, to every U.S. president who served during his lifetime. Enrico Fermi, his mentor, once called him “the only true genius I have ...

In directing “Oppenheimer,” which has garnered 13 Academy Award nominations, Nolan relegates Enrico Fermi — the true architect of the nuclear age — to a bit part.