Enrico Fermi
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Enrico Fermi | |
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![]() Enrico Fermi (1901–1954) | |
Born | 29 September 1901 Rome, Italy |
Died | 28 November 1954 (aged 53) Chicago, Illinois, USA |
Citizenship | Italy (1901–1938) United States (1944–1954) |
Fields | Physicist |
Institutions | Scuola Normale Superiore Pisa me University of Göttingen University of Leiden University of Rome La Sapienza Columbia University University of Chicago |
Alma mater | Scuola Normale Superiore |
Doctoral advisor | Luigi Puccianti |
Doctoral students | Owen Chamberlain Geoffrey Chew Mildred Dresselhaus Jerome I. Friedman Marvin Leonard Goldberger Tsung-Dao Lee Ettore Majorana James Rainwater Marshall Rosenbluth Arthur Rosenfeld Emilio Segrè Jack Steinberger Sam Treiman |
Other notable students | Richard Garwin Bruno Pontecorvo Leona Woods |
Known for | New radioactive elements produced by neutron irradiation Controlled nuclear chain reaction, Fermi–Dirac statistics Theory of beta decay |
Influenced | James Grier Miller |
Notable awards | Matteucci Medal (1926) Nobel Prize for Physics (1938) Hughes Medal (1942) Rumford Prize (1953) |
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Enrico Fermi (29 September 1901 – 28 November 1954) ek Italian physicist rahaa, jon ki pahila nuclear reactor me kaam karis rahaa aur quantum theory ke banae me bhi madat karis rahaa. Uu particle physics, aur statistical mechanics khatir bhi jaana jaawe hae. Fermi ke 1938 me Physics me Nobel prize dewa gais rahaa uske induced radioactivity ke kaam ke khatir.