Take the classic piano tuner question. To solve it, you might start by estimating Chicago’s population (say, 3 million). Then, you’d guess how many households own pianos (maybe 1 in 5).

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Italy, sentimental over their homegrown genius, also issued a stamp honoring Fermi. Guess which picture they used. In recent years, a little controversy has kicked up over the famous photo.

Without looking, I could guess that Chicago’s population is somewhere between one and five million people. Using 2.5 million to start, and assuming an average household has four people, we would ...

It was a simple question asked over lunch in 1950. Enrico Fermi, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist who helped usher in the atomic age, was dining with colleagues at Los Alamos, New Mexico, when ...

In 2018, Fermi 2 was shut down due to a valve issue. And in 1966, a partial meltdown occurred at the neighboring Fermi 1, which was the worst nuclear accident at a U.S. commercial power plant in ...

Fermi creates controlled nuclear reaction 1942. Photo by Bortzells Esselte, courtesy AIP Emilio Segre Visual Archives. Enrico Fermi (1901-1954) left Italy in 1938 to receive the Nobel Prize for ...

The two 400 foot-tall cooling towers at Fermi 2 nuclear power plant operated by DTE in Monroe County, Michigan on Monday, March 18, 2024. The nuclear plant produces 1,100 megawatts, which provides ...