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  1. Enrico Fermi (1901-1954) was an Italian physicist and recipient of the 1938 Nobel Prize in Physics. In 1942, Fermi relocated to the Chicago Met Lab, where he built an experimental reactor pile under Stagg Field at the University of Chicago.

  2. Apr 1, 2018 · ISBN 978-0-465-07292-7. Enrico Fermi was one of the most accomplished and influential physicists of the twentieth century, but has been the subject of only a handful of biographical treatments. The first of these, Atoms in the Family, was written by his wife Laura shortly before his death in 1954.

  3. The Life of Enrico Fermi. Click for a story about the photograph. On December 2, 1942, Enrico Fermi and his team of scientists harnessed the atom and opened the door to new scientific and technological realms. His achievement allowed the U.S. to produce the atomic bomb that helped end World War II.

  4. Enrico Fermi - Nuclear Physicist, Nobel Prize Winner: Settling first in New York City and then in Leonia, New Jersey, Fermi began his new life at Columbia University, in New York City. Within weeks of his arrival, news that uranium could fission astounded the physics community.

  5. Born in Rome, Italy, on September 29, 1901, Enrico Fermi was one of the most influential physicists of the 20th century. In Fig. 1 one can see his photon taken for his Los Alamos ID. He made significant contributions to a wide variety of fields such as quantum theory, nuclear physics, and particle physics. The sheer breadth and importance of ...

  6. Nov 18, 2016 · Enrico Fermi and the Birth of the Atomic Age. By Gino Segrè and Bettina Hoerlin. Illustrated. 351 pp. Henry Holt & Company. $30. In a controversial lecture more than 50 years ago, the British...

  7. Enrico Fermi, (born Sept. 29, 1901, Rome, Italy—died Nov. 28, 1954, Chicago, Ill., U.S.), Italian-born U.S. physicist. As a professor at the University of Rome, he began the work, later fully developed by P.A.M. Dirac, that led to Fermi-Dirac statistics.

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