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Enrico Fermi

Enrico Fermi, the last universal scientist. Arthur Compton recalled his visit to Columbia to invite Fermi to join the Met Lab project: Fermi stepped to the blackboard and worked out "simply and directly the equation from which could be calculated the critical size of a chain-reaction sphere."

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