The University of Chicago Chronicle2 天
The long and strange lives of Enrico Fermi’s accelerator building at UChicago
The legend goes that after scientist Enrico Fermi helped bring an end to World War II through his crucial work on the ...
The University of Chicago Chronicle9 天
All Stories
The long and strange lives of Enrico Fermi’s accelerator building at UChicago Prof. James A. Robinson 2024 Nobel Prize News Conference James A. Robinson reflects on winning a Nobel Prize ...
Hackaday4 年
The Oldest Nuclear Reactor? Nature’s 2 Billion Year Old Experiment
When was the first nuclear reactor created? You probably think it was Enrico Fermi’s CP-1 pile built under the bleachers at the University of Chicago in 1942. However, you’d be off by — oh ...
SETI3 年
The Fermi Paradox
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 ...
Scientific American2 天
The Untold Story of Marie Curie’s Network of Female Scientists
Marie Curie is well known for her chemistry achievements but less so for helping other women succeed in science ...
Nature3 年
Argonne National Laboratory celebrates 75 years of scientific discovery
In 1942, Enrico Fermi began his work on the Chicago Pile ... Because Fermi’s project was deemed too dangerous to conduct at the University of Chicago, Argonne National Laboratory was established ...
PBS1 年
Scientists and Mathematicians in America
When Bethe saw the atomic pile that physicist Enrico Fermi had built at the University he became convinced that the atomic bomb would probably work. Hans Bethe was born in Strasbourg ...
The Chicago Maroon25 天
How Stagg Field has changed throughout UChicago’s history
The University of Chicago left the Big Ten in 1946, but not before another first was achieved at the stadium. Under it, to be exact. A New Era Beneath the west stands at 3:25 p.m. on December 2, 1942, ...
PBS6 年
Murray Gell-Mann
Murray Gell-Mann started early. He entered Yale University at age 15. After receiving his B.S. there, he worked with Enrico Fermi at the University of Chicago. He obtained his PhD from MIT and in ...
Discover Magazine on MSN7 天
How Heat Death Threatens Earth, Even If We Achieve Net Zero
The current plan to avoid this fate is to reduce net carbon emissions to zero within the next 20 years. That will surely help ...
The New York Times1 天
The Learning Network
Are you easily distracted? If so, you’re in luck! This lesson will help you practice your ability to pay attention. By Jeremy Engle “Put yourself first” is often good advice when it comes ...
Nobel physics prize 2024 won by AI pioneers John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton
STOCKHOLM, Oct 8 (Reuters) - U.S. scientist John Hopfield and British-Canadian Geoffrey Hinton won the 2024 Nobel Prize in ...