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 ...

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 ...

Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” has it all wrong. The eponymous Robert Oppenheimer, who served as the director of the Los Alamos Laboratory during the development of the atomic bomb, did not usher ...

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 ...

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 ...

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced the call for nominations for the 2026 Enrico Fermi Presidential Award. The ...

Lacki suggests detecting the combined glow of the emissions of several civilizations. It’s an approach that comes with its ...

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 development of ...

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 ...