Enrico Fermi
Italian-American physicist who built the first nuclear reactor; element 100, fermium, is named after him.
Person29 Sep 1901 – 28 Nov 1954
- Identifiers
- Wikidata Q8753
Sources
Appears in14 items
- From X-rays to the Bomb12 items
- The émigré exodus7 Apr 1933
- Fermi’s group in Rome25 Mar 1934
- Fermi reports element 9316 Jun 1934
- Ida Noddack: the nucleus might break upSep 1934
- Slow neutrons22 Oct 1934
- Fermi takes his Nobel and does not go home10 Dec 1938
- Bohr announces fission in Washington26 Jan 1939
- Sachs brings the letter to Roosevelt11 Oct 1939
- The first chain reaction2 Dec 1942, 14:45
- A safety rod trips, and Fermi calls lunch2 Dec 1942, 16:25
- Chicago Pile-1 goes critical2 Dec 1942, 20:25
- Fermi drops scraps of paper16 Jul 1945, 11:30
- Inventions That Changed the World1 item
- The Periodic Table1 item
