Enrico Fermi

The long and strange lives of Enrico Fermi’s accelerator building at UChicago

Campus space has shaped scientific research, from cosmic rays to the Higgs boson to dinosaur fossils

Jack Steinberger, Nobel-winning physicist and UChicago alum, 1921-2020

Co-discoverer of muon neutrino was inspired to start in experimental physics by Enrico Fermi

Manhattan Project Plutonium, Lost to Obscurity, Recovered by Scientists

Article cites work of Enrico Fermi, Chicago scientists on first self-sustained nuclear chain reaction


Scientific American

Enrico Fermi colleagues announce time capsule contents from Research Institutes building

University of Chicago scientists publicly revealed the contents of the time capsule sealed within the Research Institutes building cornerstone June 2 before a crowd of more than 200, including several teams of television and newspaper journalists, wit...

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