In 1942, the Manhattan Project needed to create a chain reaction ... chemists and engineers of the time—including Enrico Fermi, Leo Szilard and Eugene Wigner. Hundreds of people were recruited to ...

The film discusses the pivotal role of physicist Enrico Fermi during World War II, particularly in the development of nuclear ...

Apart from Oppenheimer, the prject brought together some of the world's best scientists, including Albert Einstein, Enrico ...

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 ...

Enrico Fermi thought so – and ... Tens of millions of years may sound like a long project, but in fact it’s quite short compared to the age of the Galaxy, which is roughly a thousand times more. So ...

One item is a rare 1945 report on the development of the atomic bomb signed by 24 contributors to the Manhattan Project, including Oppenheimer and Nobel Prize winners Enrico Fermi, Ernest O.