Gino Segrè and Bettina Hoerlin co-authored The Pope of Physics: Enrico Fermi and the Birth of the Atomic Age. On Wednesday they will be at Fermilab to discuss our namesake’s personal life, his scientific contributions and how he shaped history.
Colloquium
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Takaaki Kajita, along with Arthur B. McDonald, won the 2015 Nobel Prize in physics for the discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows that neutrinos have mass.
Adrienne Kolb, a co-author of the recent book “Tunnel Visions: The Rise and Fall of the Superconducting Supercollider,” a Fermilab historian and former archivist, talks at the colloquium at 4 pm on Wednesday, June 1, in One West.
Physics Today Editor-in-Chief Charles Day will give a colloquium on Monday at 1 p.m. in Ramsey Auditorium.
Professor James Hartle of the University of California, Santa Barbara, a recipient of the 2009 APS Einstein Prize and a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, will give the colloquium titled “Einstein’s Vision and the Quantum Universe.”
It isn’t often you get the chance to be in the same room with an astronaut. Even rarer is the opportunity to hear from an astronaut of John Grunsfeld’s caliber. Today at 4 p.m., Grunsfeld will give a Fermilab Colloquium in One West. A Chicago native and an astrophysicist, Grunsfeld is a veteran of five Space Shuttle flights and has clocked more than 50 hours spacewalking. He visited the Hubble Space Telescope on three of his space shuttle missions and…