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Enrico Fermi

Enrico Fermi

Italian physicist

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Founder of
Thermonuclear weapon
Thermonuclear weapon
Nuclear reactor
Nuclear reactor
Manhattan Project
Manhattan Project
Birthdate
September 29, 1901
Birthplace
Rome
Rome
Date of Death
November 28, 1954
Place of Death
Chicago
Chicago
Nationality
Author of
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Nauchnye trudy
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Molecole e cristalli
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Notes on quantum mechanics
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Location
Italy
Italy
Educated at
University of Göttingen
University of Göttingen
University of Pisa
University of Pisa
Leiden University
Leiden University
Normal School of Pisa
Normal School of Pisa
Awards Received
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1976 National Inventors Hall of Fame Inductee
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1938 Nobel Prize in Physics
Occupation
Professor
Professor
Scientist
Scientist
Author
Author
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Writer
Writer
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Physicist
Physicist
Academic Discipline
Physics
Physics
ISNI
00000001213417770
Open Library ID
OL656942A0
VIAF
566700560

Academic attributes

Doctoral Advisor
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Luigi Puccianti
Doctoral Students
Edoardo Amaldi
Edoardo Amaldi
Harold Agnew
Harold Agnew
Ettore Majorana
Ettore Majorana
Tsung-Dao Lee
Tsung-Dao Lee
Owen Chamberlain
Owen Chamberlain
Jerome Isaac Friedman
Jerome Isaac Friedman
Mildred Dresselhaus
Mildred Dresselhaus
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Geoffrey Chew
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Citizenship
Italy
Italy
United States
United States
Known for
Demonstrating first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction Fermion Fermi gas Fermi–Dirac statistics Fermi's golden rule Fermi paradox Fermi method Thomas–Fermi model Thomas–Fermi screening Fermi theory of beta decay Chandrasekhar–Fermi method
Notable Work
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Fermi problem
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Fermi's golden rule
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Thomas–Fermi model
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Fermi contact interaction
Fermi paradox
Fermi paradox
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Fermi–Dirac statistics
Fermi's interaction
Fermi's interaction
Wikidata ID
Q8753

Enrico Fermi (1901 Rome, Italy - November 28, 1954, Chicago, USA) - Italian and American physicist, best known for creating the world's first nuclear reactor, who made a great contribution to the development of nuclear physics, elementary physics particles, quantum and statistical mechanics. Considered one of the "fathers of the atomic bomb". During his life, he received several patents related to the use of atomic energy.

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