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Broadcast corporation enlists one noted physicist (5)

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fermi

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'noted physicist' is the definition.
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(Other definitions for fermi that I've seen before include "Enrico, Italian Nobel prize physicist" , "Enrico -----, Italian nuclear physicist (1901-1954); in the US from 1939" .)

I've seen this clue in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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