Enrico Fermi
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Enrico Fermi was an Italian-American physicist, renowned for being the creator of the world's first artificial nuclear reactor, Chicago Pile-1, and a member of the Manhattan Project. He won the 1938 N
Fermi in 1943
Fermi was born in Rome at Via Gaeta 19.
Plaque at Fermi's birthplace
Enrico Fermi as a student in Pisa
Laura Fermi
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Laura Capon Fermi was an Italian and naturalized American writer and political activist. She was the wife of Nobel Prize physicist Enrico Fermi.
Enrico Fermi
…elements were later revealed to be nuclear fission products. Fermi left Italy in 1938 to escape new Italian racial laws that affected his Jewish wife, Laura Capon. He immigrated to the United States, where he worked on the Manhattan Project during World War II. Fermi led the team at the University of Chicago that…
Laura and Enrico Fermi at the Institute for Nuclear Studies, Los Alamos, 1954
Laura Fermi, 1954