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