I know you have all been DYING to find out if our name for the Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST) won the contest NASA set up earlier this year. Alas, even with the awesome-ness that was the Los Angeles contribution: “Gamma Gamma Hey!” We didn’t win. They decided to go with “The Enrico Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope.” Whatever. Here are their reasons:
Enrico Fermi was an Italian-American physicist who devised what is still the most plausible explanation for the acceleration mechanism responsible for high-energy cosmic rays, and hence, for cosmic gamma rays. In addition, Fermi made important contributions to our understanding of quantum statistics and also atomic nuclei and subatomic particles. He is generally considered to be one of the outstanding scientists of the 20th Century.
He may have won the Nobel Prize, but did he know how to rock and roll?
Thanks again for those who voted way back in March.
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