Twice every year, the University of Chicago’s Enrico Fermi Institute sponsors the Arthur Holly Compton lecture series, which provide the public an inside look at the questions about the universe with ...

A series of nine free lectures at the University of Chicago will explore how the scientific view of the smallest constituents of ordinary matter and the forces that act upon them has changed ...

Mimeographed copy of a typescript document. "Copyright Feb. 1946 Enrico Fermi, Los Alamos, N.M." "This document is a private communication to individuals who worked ...

Science, from its ancient beginnings to the present, will be the focus of "Miletus to the Supercollider (With a Pause at the Big Bang)," a lecture to be given by Nobel Laureate Leon M. Lederman on ...

The general public may view the scientific enterprise as rational and methodical, moving forward in an orderly, cohesive way. But science moves in fits and starts, sometimes forward and sometimes ...

What was Christopher Nolan thinking? 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.

Marina Cobal reviews The Pope of Physics: Enrico Fermi and the Birth of the Atomic Age by Gino Segrè and Bettina Hoerlin The Via Panisperna boys. From left: Oscar D’Agostino, Emilio Segrè, Edoardo ...

The megalomaniac physicist Edward Teller “was always certain that he was smarter than all his colleagues on the Manhattan Project, except one”, a younger colleague of his (Robert Sachs) told me in ...

November 1954, Billings Hospital, Chicago. The great physicist Enrico Fermi is ill in bed, his life in a hopeless situation. His colleagues Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar and Herb Anderson pay him a visit ...