Enrico Fermi

The Atomic Bomb and Nuclear Fusion The atom bomb was created in the summer of 1945. It was created under the name "Manhattan Project" as to retain secrecy. Only a dozen trusted scientist knew about the project; J. Robert Oppenheimer and Enrico Fermi, DuPont's Crawford Greenewalt and Kellogg's Percival Keith, MIT's Vannevar Bush, Harvard's James B. Conant, and Berkeley's Ernest O. Lawrence. The atom bomb changed the world in multiple ways. It led to the creation of "artificial radioactivity".…

Lise Meitner was conceived on November 7, 1878, in Vienna, Austria. She is the third of eight offspring of a Jewish family. She had entered the University of Vienna in 1901, learning under the wings of Ludwig Boltzmann. After she earned her doctorate degree in 1906, she went to Berlin in 1907 to train with Max Planck and the scientific expert Otto Hahn. She worked alongside Hahn for a long time. Lise became the first woman to be the head of the physics department in Berlin's Kaiser Wilhelm…

detailed the concern that they had over “Extremely powerful weapons of a bombs of a new type. (Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan_Project))” The letter also urged the United States to obtain stockpiles of Uranium Ore and continue Enrico Fermi and nuclear chain reactions. Roosevelt agreed with this sentiment and executed order 8807 which formed the Office of Scientific Research and Development which empowered large engineering projects for what is now going to be known as the…

Are the Aliens Avoiding Our Planet? In 1950, the physicist Enrico Fermi asked a crucial question during one lunch at the National Laboratory of Los Angeles. According to the number of galaxies, planets and starts that we know, it is very probable that extraterrestrial life exists. So, where is it? This question, known as the Fermi’s paradox, is very logical when the size of our universe is taken into consideration. Even though there are many hypothesis trying to find the answer of this…

Neutrinos are one of the most abundant particles in the universe second only to photons, yet they are one of the most elusive particles known to man. The neutrino is essentially a near massless subatomic particle possessing a neutral charge. Neutrinos scarcely interact with normal matter as a consequence of having a neutral charge and a mass of almost zero. There are three flavors of neutrinos: electron, tau, and muon; many neutrinos oscillate between these flavors. Neutrinos can be produced in…

Dwight D.Eisenhower stated, “We are going to have peace even if we are going to fight for it.” The dropping of the atomic bombs in Japan was a necessary act in order for countless lives to be saved. In World War II, Japan treated the lives and peace of the people of the United States of America. Many people thought that dropping the atomic bomb was not necessary, but others would say otherwise. I believe that it was a necessary act that needed to be done. It brought the war with Japan to a…

the United States dropped the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Although these weapons effectively ended World War II, the devastation and destruction they wrought was echoed in Oppenheimer’s speech. Although men like Robert Oppenheimer and Enrico Fermi would remain paramount in the history of the Manhattan project, the atomic bomb would not have been possible without a more obscure man: Leo…

The four fundamental forces have been around before mankind. These forces shape the way we live and interact with the objects around us on a daily basis. These forces are so important, they are in existence throughout the entire universe. Black holes, the formation of planets, galaxies and stars are all because of gravity and these same celestial bodies have their own electromagnetic forces and the strong and weak nuclear forces are. Since everything in the universe is made of atoms, there is…

Dear Mr. Ban, I am formally writing this letter to ask for your intercession in the grave matter that has been threatening our world since Enrico Fermi successfully created the first nuclear reactor, which later on made way for the atomic and hydrogen bombs. Currently, nine countries are in possession of nuclear weapons. This is enough nuclear capability to wipe out the human race completely. This is what is worrisome. During the Cold War, we saw a considerable increase of nuclear armament in…

Their counter arguement is the Fermi Paradox created by physicist Enrico Fermi in 1950. He asked the if most stars have planets, and alien civilizations could be billions of years older than us, and if it only takes a million years to explore the galaxy at sub light speed, why haven't we seen them? According to Fermi the earth should have been visited long ago and many times over but their are many counter arguements to the…