Two of the greatest contributors to nuclear energy, in different eras, were the Italian genius, Enrico Fermi (1901-1954), and the American chemist, Glenn Seaborg (1912-1999). Fermi designed and built the first reactor, Seaborg discovered plutonium and, more pertinently, chaired the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission for a decade from 1961. I enjoyed this 2001 reminisce from Seaborg (in a final memoir. . .
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Escape from Mussolini
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