Enrico Fermi
Enrico Fermi
Enrico Fermi (1901-1954)
Born
29 September
1901(1901-09-29)
Rome, Italy
Died
28 November 1954 (aged 53)
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Citizenship
Italy (1901-1938)
United States (1944-1954)
Fields
Physicist
Institutions
Scuola Normale Superiore in
Pisa
University of Göttingen
University of Leiden
University of Rome La
Sapienza
Columbia University
University of Chicago
Alma mater
Scuola Normale Superiore
Doctoral advisor Luigi Puccianti
Doctoral
students
Owen Chamberlain
Geoffrey Chew
Mildred Dresselhaus
Jerome I. Friedman
Marvin Leonard Goldberger
Tsung-Dao Lee
Ettore Majorana
James Rainwater
Marshall Rosenbluth
Arthur Rosenfeld
Emilio Segrè
Jack Steinberger
Sam Treiman
Other
notable students
Richard Garwin
Bruno Pontecorvo
Leona Woods
Known for
New radioactive elements
produced by neutron
irradiation
Controlled nuclear chain
reaction,
Fermi-Dirac statistics
Theory of beta decay
Influenced
James Grier Miller
Notable awards Matteucci Medal (1926)
Nobel Prize for Physics (1938)
Hughes Medal (1942)
Rumford Prize (1953)
Signature
Notes
He is the husband of Laura Fermi.
Enrico Fermi (29 September 1901 – 28
November 1954) was an Italian physicist
most noted for his work on the development
of the first nuclear reactor, and for his contri-
butions to the development of quantum the-
ory, nuclear and particle physics, and statist-
ical mechanics. Fermi was awarded the No-
bel Prize in Physics in 1938 for his work on
induced radioactivity and is today regarded
as one of the top scientists of the 20th cen-
tury. He is acknowledged as a unique physi-
cist who was highly accomplished in both
theory and experiment.[1] Fermium, a syn-
thetic element created in 1952, and the
Fermi National Accelerator Lab are named
after him.
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Enrico Fermi
1
Early years
Enrico Fermi was born on September 29,
1901 in Rome, Italy to Alberto Fermi, a Chief
Inspector of the Ministry of Communications,
and Ida de Gattis, an elementary school
teacher. As a young boy he enjoyed learning
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