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Fermi was a steamroller that moved slowly, but knew no obstacles.
Of the physicist Enrico fermi

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If some nuclear properties of the heavy elements had been a little different from what they turned out to be, it might have been impossible to build a bomb.

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In scientific matters there was a common language and one standard of values; in moral and political problems there were many. … Furthermore, in science there is a court of last resort, experiment, which is unavailable in human affairs.

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
Werner Heisenberg

Emilio Segrè

Emilio Segrè
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Born: January 30, 1905
Died: April 22, 1989 (aged 84)
Bio: Emilio Gino Segrè was an Italian physicist and Nobel laureate who discovered the elements technetium and astatine, and the antiproton, a sub-atomic antiparticle, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1959.
Known for:
  1. Enrico Fermi, Physicist (1970)
  2. A mind always in motion
  3. From X-Rays to Quarks (1980)
  4. From Falling Bodies to Radio Waves (1984)
  5. Experimental nuclear physics (1953)

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