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.

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"Where is everybody?" Enrico Fermi asked fellow famous physicists including Edward Teller over lunch in 1950. This quandary was named Fermi's Paradox. "It's a numbers game," Jason Wright ...

The eminent physicist Enrico Fermi was visiting his colleagues at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico that summer, and the mealtime conversation turned to the subject of UFOs. Very ...

This contradiction is known as the Fermi Paradox, first proposed by physicist Enrico Fermi in 1950. Humanity has been around for just 200,000 years, and we've been listening for possible radio ...