In the summer of 1950, four men sat down for lunch together at Los Alamos. It was, at the time, the center of American physics, and these men were respected contributors to their field. Among them was ...

Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” has it all wrong. The eponymous Robert Oppenheimer, who served as the director of the Los Alamos Laboratory during the development of the atomic bomb, did not usher ...

"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 ...

The Biden-Harris Administration will be honoring Darleane C. Hoffman and Gabor A. Somorjai as recipients of the 2023 Enrico Fermi Presidential Award in a virtual ceremony June 6 th, 2023, at 3:00 p.m.

During the Trinity test, physicist Enrico Fermi conducted a simple yet ingenious experiment by dropping paper scraps to estimate the atomic bomb's explosive yield. This method, rooted in physics, ...

In his classic science fiction novel Contact, Carl Sagan remarked, “The universe is a pretty big place. If it's just us, seems like an awful waste of space.” Physicist Enrico Fermi is credited with ...

Chicago’s south side has reinvented itself before; knowing this history can change its future.

March 28, 2023 — The White House today announced that Darleane C. Hoffman and Gabor A. Somorjai are the recipients of the Enrico Fermi Presidential Award. Darleane C. Hoffman, Ph.D. is a nuclear ...

Enrico Fermi (; 29 September 1901 – 28 November 1954) was an Italian physicist, best known for his work on Chicago Pile-1 (the first nuclear reactor), and for his contributions to the development of ...

University of Chicago President Paul Alivisatos was awarded the Enrico Fermi Presidential Award—one of the most prestigious science and technology honors bestowed by the U.S. government—at a Jan. 10 ...

The Nature Index tracks primary research articles from 145 natural-science and health-science journals, chosen based on reputation by an independent group of researchers. The Nature Index provides ...