Enrico Fermi

Enrico Fermi in the 1940s.

Enrico Fermi (29 September 1901 – 28 November 1954) wis an Italian-American pheesicist best kent for his wark on beta decay, the makkin o the first nuclear reactor, an for the oncome o quantum theory. Fermi won the 1938 Nobel Prize in Pheesics for his wark on nuclear fission.

References

• Laura Fermi, Atoms in the Family: My Life with Enrico Fermi (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1954) ISBN 0-226-24367-2
• Richard Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1986).
• C. P. Snow, "The Physicists" (Toronto: Little, Brown, 1981)
• Fermi's audio biography at the Varsity o Chicago wabsteid. (http://www-news.uchicago.edu/fermi/resources.html)

Fremmit airtins

• A photographic archive o Fermi an the Panisperna louns
• Aboot Enrico Fermi
• Life an warks o Enrico Fermi (in Italian)

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