During the thirties when fission was being looked at, is it true that Enrico Fermi would take...?

Question

two small pellets of U and bring them close together with his bare hands to feel that they were getting quite warm?

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Answer 3

Enrico Fermi, (September 29, 1901 – November 28, 1954). I doubt he would have lived into the 50's if he did what you say in the 30's. In the 20's, he participated in expermiments at Columbia University in which two chunks of uranium were moved together by a long pole thru an opening in a huge pile of lead bars. Remote sensors were used to measure the temperature rise.

Answer 4

I knew Fermi and I can tell you he was too smart to do that. However, you may be thinking of the fate of Louis Slotin, a brilliant young physicist in Los Alamos, who was making measurements involving just this sort of thing. He'd bring two bits of U-235 close together and measure the neutron output. One day his hand slipped, he brought them too close together, and he died of the excess radiation in a few days.

No one would be allowed to take such risks today.

Answer 5

Ask him yourself

Answer 6

Are you talking about "Fingers Fermi" as he was affectionately known?

( Later known as Stumpy!).