The U.S. Postal Service has issued a new 34-cent stamp honoring the 100th anniversary of the birth of Enrico Fermi. The ceremony took place at 9:30 a.m. on Saturday, September 29, in the Cloister Club ...

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University of Chicago President Paul Alivisatos has been named one of this year’s winners of the Enrico Fermi Presidential Award, a prestigious science and technology honor given by the U.S.

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 ...

CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the University of Chicago, in partnership with Argonne National Laboratory and Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, ...

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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 ...

Gift Article 10 Remaining As a subscriber, you have 10 articles to gift each month. Gifting allows recipients to access the article for free. Fermilab has named a new director from the West Coast who ...

Some kind of invisible material is out there affecting the motions of stars and galaxies, but thus far, no one has been able to directly detect the substance—called dark matter—itself. But some are ...

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 wife ...