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Enrico Fermi, Italian-American physicist, born September 29, 1901 in Rome, Italy, died November 29, 1954 in Chicago, Illinois.


Fermi is most noted for his work on beta decay and the development of the first man-made nuclear reactor.


Fermions are named after him.


He led the construction of the first nuclear pile, which produced the first man-made nuclear chain reaction. He was one of the leaders of the Manhattan Project.


In 1938, he won the Nobel Physics Prize 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."



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