Obama Meets With Fermi Award Winners

WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 3: U.S. President Barack Obama talks with recipients of the 2013 Enrico Fermi Award, Dr. Allen J. Bard (L), Director, Center for Electrochemistry and Hackerman-Welch Regents Chair in Chemistry at The University of Texas at Austin and Andrew Sessler, Director, Center for Electrochemistry and Hackerman-Welch Regents Chair in Chemistry at The University of Texas at Austin, in the Oval Office February 3, 2014 in Washington, DC. Obama named Bard and Sessler to teh award namsed after Enrico Fermi, the first scientist to achieve a nuclear chain reaction. (Photo by Martin H. Simon-Pool/Getty Images)