Rome-born physicist

Usage examples of fermi.

Enrico Fermi helped his wife Laura down from their wagon, then waved to Yeager.

Enrico Fermi, who was serving as best man, slapped Yeager on the back.

As far as he was concerned, having Fermi as his best man was almostnot quiteas exciting as getting married to Barbara.

Enrico Fermi picked that precise moment to walk up, hand in hand, with his wife Laura.

A couple of more wagons pulled up in front of Science Hall before he saw more people he knew: Enrico and Laura Fermi, looking incongruous on a tarp-covered hay wagon.

Along with the rest of the physicists, Jens Larssen watched tensely as Enrico Fermi manipulated the levers that raised the cadmium control rods from the heart of the rebuilt atomic pile under the University of Denver football stadium.

He leaned toward Fermi, using his physical presence to make his point for him.

Of course Fermi could not see him, but he was embarrassed even to be talking to the Italian physicist, a dignified man if ever there was one, with trousers at half-mast.

He nodded to Enrico Fermi, one of the two or three men who had beaten him to the meeting.

Szilard said, and all at once Larssen was certain he and Fermi had planned their strategy together ahead of time.

Enrico Fermi answered, which left Yeager little wiser than he had been before.

When Fermi told him, he wrote it on the top and two sides of the box in big black letters.

He was heading back to give Fermi more help when Barbara Larssen came out of a nearby room.

And from what Fermi said, every gadget here had to be treated as irreplaceable.

They had all agreed that there was no good reason for any of them to come visit him in Fermi, especially since he would probably be spending his time there under house arrest.