"November 2017"--Title page verso. NMAH copy purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. "In December 1942, a team at the University of Chicago achieved a milestone in human history: a ...

A Nasa researcher has suggested aliens may have got bored of trying to communicate with Earth and given up. The new ...

A new book edited by the University of Chicago's James Cronin describes the many-faceted scientific legacies of Nobel laureate Enrico Fermi, whose contributions to 20th-century physics are perhaps ...

Historians differ about which battles were really decisive and about which great men of history were really great. Few will differ about Italian-born Physicist Enrico Fermi, a great man of science who ...

Enrico Fermi, a Nobel Prizewinner, is one of the principal founders of modern physics. On Dec. 2, 1942, he set in operation the first nuclear reactor, thus became the Prometheus of the Atomic Age.

In 1945, as the first atomic bomb exploded in the New Mexico desert, Enrico Fermi stood miles away, holding a few scraps of ...

President Clinton's choices for the winners of the 1994-95 Enrico Fermi Award--Freeman Dyson, a professor, emeritus, of physics at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J., and Liane B.

Even with modest assumptions, the Drake Equation often suggests the galaxy should be chock full of extraterrestrial neighbors ...

President Clinton has named Sidney Drell, former deputy director of the Stanford Linear Accelerator, as a recipient of the nation's oldest award in science and technology for a lifetime of achievement ...