Enrico Fermi, Italian-American physicist ... and Arthur Compton and Ernest Lawrence's contribution to the Manhattan Project [the U.S. government research project that produced the first atomic ...

Enrico Fermi (1901-1954 ... When scientists convinced President Roosevelt of this, Fermi was appointed to head a research team as part of a secret project to develop an atomic bomb.

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 ...

Located outside of Chicago, Argonne National Laboratory has a long history that dates back to Enrico Fermi’s work as part of the Manhattan Project. In the decades since then, the laboratory has ...

Italian-born physicist Enrico Fermi won the Nobel Prize in 1938 ... During World War II, Fermi worked on the Manhattan Project, leading the group of physicists that built the world’s first ...