Enrico Fermi (; 29 September 1901 – 28 November ... After the war, Fermi served under J. Robert Oppenheimer on the influential General Advisory Committee, which advised the Atomic Energy ...

1940-1945”—was signed by Oppenheimer, the theoretical physicist who directed the Manhattan Project, and 23 other contributors, including Enrico Fermi, Ernest Lawrence, James Chadwick and ...

Oppenheimer then was denied security clearance, but he was partially restored to public honor in 1963 when President Johnson awarded him the AEC's Enrico Fermi Award for his "far-ranging" and ...

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 ...

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The same agency, however, nine years later awarded Dr. Oppenheimer the $50,000 Fermi award for “his outstanding contributions to theoretical physics and his scientific and administrative ...

One such physicist was Max Born, a professor at the University of Gottingen and mentor to some of the most influential scientists of the 20th century, including Enrico Fermi, Robert Oppenheimer ...