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Enrico Fermi Award

Enrico Fermi Award

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Oct 15, 2026

Anish SherinHOST
4:16
And in Germany especially, there was little appetite to revisit a story that rejected so poorly how a brilliant scientist had, had been treated because of her religion, her gender, her gender, and her accent.
Anish SherinHOST
4:39
It took until 1966 for a, a measure of, of correction to arrive when Hahn, Meitner, and Strassmann were jointly awarded the US Enrico Fermi Award, formally recognized all three as co-discoverers.
Anish SherinHOST
5:05
And in 1997, scientists named a newly discovered chemical element meitnerium in her honor.
Anish SherinHOST
5:18
Meitnerium in her honor.
Dan PonemanHOST
2:48
And he's now emeritus professor at Stanford.
Dan PonemanHOST
2:51
And one of the truly impressive things to me, those of us in the field will appreciate, he is the recipient of the Presidential Enrico Fermi Award.
Dan PonemanHOST
2:59
And for those of you who saw the movie Oppenheimer, I think it's recorded in there that on December 2nd, if my memory serves, 1963, Oppenheimer received the Fermi Award from President Lyndon Johnson, who'd only been in office about 10 days at that time.
Dan PonemanHOST
3:14
Sig, welcome.

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