Science & Medicine
She no longer had to wonder.
Jan. 8, 1995
World & Nation
Nearly 14 years late and $4 billion over budget, the Enrico Fermi II nuclear power plant may finally go into operation today.
Jan. 23, 1988
California
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Aug. 12, 1993
U.S. military experts considered poisoning 500,000 Germans during World War II with radioactive food, according to a letter from A-bomb father J.
April 19, 1985
Books
In the summer of 1939, the German nuclear physicist, Werner Heisenberg, came to the United States on a lecture tour, and, while in New York, met his famous Italian colleague, Enrico Fermi, who had recently emigrated from his home country.
Aug. 10, 1986
Luis W.
Nov. 9, 1987
Closing the book on one of the most intriguing mysteries surrounding the Soviet Union’s postwar efforts to steal America’s atomic bomb secrets, the FBI on Monday officially cleared four giants of Western science of any complicity in Russian espionage.
May 2, 1995
Walter H.
Feb. 27, 2000
PICTURING THE BOMB: Photographs From the Secret World of the Manhattan Project, by Rachel Fermi and Esther Samra (Harry N.
Nov. 26, 1995
Gabriel Maria Giannini, a physicist, aerospace equipment manufacturer and inventor who held more than 50 U.S. patents at his death, the most recent issued less than three months ago, died of the complications of a stroke Sept. 20 at Eisenhower Medical Clinic in Rancho Mirage, Calif.
Sept. 27, 1989