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    What Would Enrico Fermi Think Of Science Today?

    More than 60 years after the physicist won the Nobel Prize, author
    by David N. Schwartz Dec 05, 2017 4 minutes

    David N. Schwartz is the author of The Last Man Who Knew Everything: The Life and Times of Enrico Fermi, Father of the Nuclear Age. You can find him on Twitter at: @dschwa8059.

    I have been living with Enrico Fermi for the past four years.

    Well, I have been living with him metaphorically — as I have just completed a full-scale biography of Fermi. So, I've been spending a lot of time thinking about how he would view today's scientific landscape.

    Fermi's contributions to physics were so broad ranging, his interests so wide, that he made a mark in

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