Epstein Secrets

re than 330 scholars, most of them Jewish, from Nazi Germany to the United States, including such luminaries as philosopher Martin Buber, physicist Enrico Fermi and novelist Thomas Mann. Descendents of several of those earlier scholars, along with families of other Jewish refugees, gathered recently at the

e night was Hanna Holborn Gray, who came over with her parents through the 1930s rescue program and went on to become the first female president of the University of Chicago. "In the 1930s, the German academic world was seen as a model, and one saw how quickly that could vanish," Gray recalled. Almost all of the 45 sch

re than 330 scholars, most of them Jewish, from Nazi Germany to the United States, including such luminaries as philosopher Martin Huber, physicist Enrico Fermi and novelist Thomas Mann. Descendents of several of those earlier scholars, along with families of other Jewish refugees, gathered recently at the

e night was Hanna Holbom Gray, who came over with her parents through the I 930s rescue program and went on to become the first female president of the University of Chicago. "In the 1930s, the German academic world was seen as a model, and one saw how quickly that could vanish," Gray recalled. Almost all of the 45 sch

sin of the proton with comparable mass, Pauli's hypothesized particle needed another name. The brilliant Italian physicist and colleague of Pauli's—Enrico Fermi— came up with a solution in 1934, changing its name to neutrino, an Ital- ian pun for "little neutron." It would take twenty-six years for Pauli's n

erstandably worried about doing this in an urban area, Fermi was confident enough to convince the leader of the project to allow him to build it at the University of Chicago. On Decem- ber z, 1942, the reactor went critical, and Chicago survived. Two and a half years later, Fermi was on hand in New Mexico to observe the

re than 330 scholars, most of them Jewish, from Nazi Germany to the United States, including such luminaries as philosopher Martin Buber, physicist Enrico Fermi and novelist Thomas Mann. Descendents of several of those earlier scholars, along with families of other Jewish refugees, gathered recently at the

e night was Hanna Holborn Gray, who came over with her parents through the 1930s rescue program and went on to become the first female president of the University of Chicago. "In the 1930s, the German academic world was seen as a model, and one saw how quickly that could vanish," Gray recalled. Almost all of the 45 sch