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Enrico Fermi (1901 - 1954)

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Enrico Fermi

Enrico Fermi (1901-1954) was an Italian (later naturalized American) physicist and the creator of...

Enrico Fermi (1901-1954) was an Italian (later naturalized American) physicist and the creator of the world's first nuclear reactor, the Chicago Pile-1. He has been called the "architect of the nuclear age" and the "architect of the atomic bomb". He was one of very few physicists to excel in both theoretical physics and experimental physics. Fermi was awarded the 1938 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on induced radioactivity by neutron bombardment and for the discovery of transuranium...

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1938 - Enrico Fermi – Italy - "for his demonstrations of the existence of new radioactive elements produced by neutron irradiation, and for his related discovery of nuclear reactions brought about by slow neutrons". From Wikipedia.