
Enrico Fermi - Wikipedia
Enrico Fermi (Italian: [enˈriːko ˈfermi]; 29 September 1901 – 28 November 1954) was an Italian and naturalized American physicist, renowned for being the creator of the world's first artificial …
Enrico Fermi | Education, Discoveries, Biography, & Facts
Nov 24, 2025 · Enrico Fermi was an Italian-born American scientist who became one of the chief architects of the nuclear age. He developed Fermi-Dirac statistics for a large class of …
Enrico Fermi – Biographical - NobelPrize.org
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1938 was awarded to Enrico Fermi "for his demonstrations of the existence of new radioactive elements produced by neutron irradiation, and for his related …
Enrico Fermi - Nuclear Museum
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 …
FERMI The Life of Enrico Fermi | U.S. DOE Office of Science (SC)
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 …
Manhattan Project Scientists: Enrico Fermi - U.S. National Park Service
Enrico Fermi developed the world's first nuclear reactor. Born in Rome, Italy in 1901, Fermi received his PhD in Physics from the University of Pisa in 1922. In 1927, he became Professor …
Enrico Fermi - DPMA
Dec 10, 2025 · Enrico Fermi was one of the most important physicists of the 20th century. He is often called the "father of the nuclear age" because he built the first nuclear reactor and …
Enrico Fermi | Biographies - Atomic Archive
Enrico Fermi won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1938 . He led the Manhattan Project's effort to create the first man-made and self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction.
Enrico Fermi - New World Encyclopedia
Enrico Fermi (September 29, 1901 – November 28, 1954) was an Italian physicist most noted for his work on the development of the first nuclear reactor, and for his contributions to the …
Enrico Fermi – Architect of the Nuclear Age | Explore Nuclear
Enrico Fermi (1901–1954) was a pioneering physicist whose work significantly advanced nuclear physics, quantum mechanics, and particle physics. He developed the first artificial nuclear …