The couple bought a vacation home in Driggs, Idaho, in 1991 with his 1988 Nobel Prize money and moved there full-time in 2011. The Nobel Prize he won sold for $765,000 in 2015.

Enrico Fermi, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist who helped usher in the atomic age, was dining with colleagues at Los Alamos, New Mexico, when the conversation turned to extraterrestrial life.

He retired from Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois, in June 2012 and moved to Idaho. The 92-year-old has said he decided to sell the prize because it has just been sitting ...

After accepting the Nobel Prize in Stockholm on Dec. 10, 1938, Enrico Fermi and his family later boarded the RMS Franconia in Southampton — and sailed to freedom, arriving in New York on Jan. 2 ...

Schwartz, much like Fermi’s previous biographers, is mostly left making educated guesses built upon inferences from second-hand testimonies. On the other hand, things become clearer as soon as Fermi ...

Few writers are better positioned than that duo to bring Fermi's story to light. Segrè is the nephew of Nobel Laureate Emilio Segrè, Fermi's first graduate student and long-term collaborator.

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 ...