Hungarian-born scientist Leo Szilard, Fermi and other scientists knew they needed to leapfrog the bureaucracy.
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Users of the Fermi space telescope have now confirmed these observations, which were first made by amateur astronomers.
This theoretical underpinning paved the way for Niels Bohr, born in Denmark, and Enrico Fermi to make their breakthrough.
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It should be relatively straightforward to detect these using satellite-based telescopes such as Fermi, which was launched last year.
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Just nine days later, the bright nearby burst happened, leading to the Fermi detection of the highest energy gamma-ray ever.
"I'm in shock and awe at how bright it is, " said Julie McEnery, project scientist for the Fermi gamma-ray telescope.
The one seen by Fermi at 0013 GMT on 16 September last year, in the constellation Carina, went on for 23 minutes.
It was in a University of Chicago squash court that Enrico Fermi set off the first controlled nuclear chain reaction in 1942.
In all, five of the first eight winners of what became known as the Enrico Fermi Award (so named after his death) were immigrants.
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At the moment, data collected for other purposes at the Fermi National Laboratory, near Chicago, are being analysed again for signs of a leak.
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Julie McEnery, project scientist for the Fermi mission, said a deepening dark matter mystery has sparked the call for proposals to change the telescope's mission.
It was at that Washington conference in 1939 that Bohr and Fermi first publicly addressed the idea that neutrons were emitted when uranium fission takes place.
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To it he attracted (among other scientific luminaries) Einstein, Fermi and Lawrence, who, as his guests, collaborated to produce discoveries that helped win World War II.
Other experiments, notably at the Fermi National Accelerator facility in the US, have not definitively found a notable difference between the two kinds of decay of D-mesons.
The Fermi telescope is specially designed to capture gamma rays, and the team was surprised to find that it was spitting out gamma rays at completely unexpected energies.
Italian-born physicist Enrico Fermi, a winner of the Nobel Prize, contacted the U.S. Navy about these concerns but could not convince officials of the gravity of the situation.
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They are known as fermions, after Enrico Fermi, the physicist who built the first nuclear reactor, and who also gave his name to Fermilab, a particle-physics laboratory near Chicago.
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"In the two years since Fermi was launched, hybrid computing has become a widely adopted way to achieve higher performance for a number of critical HPC applications, " said Earl C.
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Now, an international team of astronomers has trained the Fermi space-based gamma ray telescope on V407 Cygni, a "binary" system comprising a white dwarf star and a red giant companion, 9, 000 light-years away.
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The most popular theory holds that dark matter is made up of relatively heavy particles which, when they encounter one another, "annihilate" with a flash of light that the Fermi telescope can see.
"It's taken years of hard work and close collaboration among universities, national laboratories and private companies to get to this point, " said Pier Oddone, director of the Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.
It delivers up to three times more performance per watt than the Fermi streaming multiprocessor, making it possible to build a supercomputer that delivers one petaflop of computing performance in just 10 server racks.
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"This is the most spectacular burst ever seen at high energy, " said Dr Valerie Connaughton, a scientist from the University of Alabama, Huntsville, and a member of Fermi's Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) instrument team.
For a quarter of a century before CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) began working in earnest in 2009 the Tevatron, at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) in Batavia, near Chicago, dominated high-energy physics.
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The first winner was the Italian-born Enrico Fermi.
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But outside the Fermi team, the focus shifted in early 2012, when a pair of papers on the Arxiv preprint server suggested hints of dark matter within Fermi's data, which are publicly available.
Fermi and a laundry list of the world's great observatories on the ground and in space were all watching because of a coordinated plan to study Markarian 421 across a number of "colours" of light from radio to gamma-ray.
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