"Fermi grasped that any civilization with a modest ... Civilizations could communicate using methods we haven’t discovered yet, like neutrino beams or quantum entanglement.

He was present at the Trinity test on 16 July 1945, where he used his Fermi method to estimate the bomb's yield. After the war, Fermi served under J. Robert Oppenheimer on the influential General ...

Enrico Fermi, Italian-American physicist, received the 1938 Nobel Prize in physics for identifying new elements and discovering nuclear reactions by his method of nuclear irradiation and bombardment.

Photo by Bortzells Esselte, courtesy AIP Emilio Segre Visual Archives. Enrico Fermi (1901-1954) left Italy in 1938 to receive the Nobel Prize for physics in Sweden. He never went back. He and his ...