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Enrico Fermi was an Italian-American physicist, renowned for being the creator of the world's first artificial nuclear reactor, Chicago Pile-1, and a member of the Manhattan Project. He won the 1938 Nobel Prize in Physics "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". 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 and experimental physics. With his colleagues, Fermi filed several patents related to the use of nuclear power, all of which were taken over by the US government. He made significant contributions to the development of statistical mechanics, quantum theory, and nuclear and particle physics.
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Born 29 September 1901 · Died 28 November 1954 · Q8753
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“On the Origin of Cosmic Radiation”
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Time named Fermi on its list of the top 100 persons of the twentieth century
Awarded National Inventors Hall of Fame (1976).
And the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, which was named after him in 2008, in recognition of his work on cosmic rays
The United States Atomic Energy Commission, and from 1977, the U
Died 1954-11-28.
Won Max Planck Medal (1954).
“Si los extraterrestres existen, ¿Dónde están?.”
“Si yo pudiera recordar el nombre de todas estas partículas habría sido botánico.”
“There are two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a measurement. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery.”
“If I could remember the names of all these particles, I'd be a botanist.”
That resulted in the denial of Oppenheimer's security clearance
Awarded Rumford Prize (1953).
Awarded Henry Norris Russell Lectureship (1953).
Awarded Richtmyer Memorial Lecture Award (1952).
Won Barnard Medal for Meritorious Service to Science (1950).
Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1950).
Awarded Silliman Memorial Lectures (1949).
Won Franklin Medal (1947).
For his contribution to the Manhattan Project
And when the B Reactor at the Hanford Site did so the next year
Won Hughes Medal (1942).
And a Foreign Member of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1950
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics — 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.
Awarded Nobel Prize in Physics (1938).
Fermi received the Nobel Prize in Physics at the age of 37 for his "demonstrations of the existence of new radioactive elements produced by neutron irradiation, and for his related discovery of nuclear reactions brought
To escape new Italian racial laws that affected his Jewish wife, Laura Capon
And then a longer paper the next year that incorporated the postulated particle, which Fermi called a "neutrino"
Published his Introduction to Atomic Physics (Introduzione alla fisica atomica), which provided Italian university students with an up-to-date and accessible text
Won Matteucci Medal (1926).
The Nobel Prize for Physics in 1938, the Hughes Medal in 1942, the Franklin Medal in 1947, and the Rumford Prize in 1953
At the age of 24, he applied for a professorship at the Sapienza University of Rome
Fermi followed with a paper in which he applied the principle to an ideal gas, employing a statistical formulation now known as Fermi–Dirac statistics
Fermi responded with a paper "On the quantization of the perfect monoatomic gas" (Sulla quantizzazione del gas perfetto monoatomico), in which he applied the exclusion principle to an ideal gas
Studied at Leiden University (1923–1924).
Studied at University of Göttingen (1923–1923).
Fermi was the first to point out that hidden inside the Einstein equation (E = mc2) was an enormous amount of nuclear potential energy to be exploited
Studied at Scuola Normale Superiore. Classe di Scienze, diploma di licenza della Scuola Normale Superiore (1918–1922).
And Maria died in an airplane crash near Milan in 1959
Met his father’s colleague Adolfo Amidei, who was accustomed to walking part of the way home with Alberto
Born 1901-09-29.
Awarded Fellow of the American Physical Society.
Studied at University of Pisa.
Career landmark: Participated in Manhattan Project (tournament / event).