Enrico Fermi - Nobel Prize in Physics — 1938
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Enrico Fermi

Prize
Nobel Prize in Physics — 1938
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
Citizenship
Kingdom of ItalyKingdom of ItalyUnited StatesUnited StatesItalyItaly
Languages
English, Italian
date of birth
9/29/1901
place of birth
Rome
date of death
11/28/1954
place of death
Chicago
Lived
53 years

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occupation
  • university teacher
  • nuclear physicist
  • physicist
  • theoretical physicist
  • inventor
field of work
  • particle physics
  • theoretical physics
  • experimental physics
  • statistical mechanics
  • nuclear reaction
  • quantum theory
  • physics
  • nuclear physics
  • quantum mechanics
educated at
  • Scuola Normale Superiore. Classe di Scienze
    • academic degree: diploma di licenza della Scuola Normale Superiore
    • start time: 1918
    • end time: 1922
  • University of Göttingen
    • start time: 1923
    • end time: 1923
  • Leiden University
    • start time: 1923
    • end time: 1924
  • University of Pisa
employer
  • Enrico Fermi Institute
  • University of Chicago
    • start time: 1942
    • end time: 1954
  • University of Göttingen
  • Leiden University
  • Sapienza University of Rome
    • start time: 1926
    • end time: 1938
  • Columbia University
    • start time: 1939
    • end time: 1942
  • University of Florence
    • start time: 1924
    • end time: 1926
member of
  • Royal Society of London
    • start time: 4/27/1950
  • Academy of Sciences of the USSR
    • start time: 1929
  • National Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 1945
  • Royal Academy of Italy
    • start time: 3/18/1929
  • Academy of Sciences of Turin
    • start time: 5/27/1928
  • Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
    • start time: 7/27/1932
    • end time: 5/6/1935
  • Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
    • start time: 5/6/1935
  • Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze detta dei XL
    • start time: 1933
  • Accademia Tiberina
    • start time: 1928
  • American Philosophical Society
    • start time: 1939
  • German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
    • start time: 1935
  • Romanian Academy
    • start time: 1938
doctoral student
  • Robert A. Schluter
    • end time: 1954
  • Herbert L. Anderson
  • Emilio G. Segrè
  • Owen Chamberlain
  • Tsung-Dao Lee
  • Richard Garwin
  • Marvin Leonard Goldberger
  • Ettore Majorana
  • Geoffrey Chew
  • Oreste Piccioni
  • Arthur H. Rosenfeld
  • Willem Malkus
  • Sam Treiman
  • Mario Ageno
notable work
  • Fermi's golden rule
  • Fermi problem
  • Fermi's interaction
  • Fermi–Dirac statistics
  • Fermi paradox
  • Fermi–Pasta–Ulam–Tsingou problem
  • Fermi contact interaction
  • Thomas–Fermi model
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