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Enrico Fermi

1901 - 1954

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Enrico Fermi (Italian: [enˈriːko ˈfermi]; 29 September 1901 – 28 November 1954) was an Italian and naturalized American physicist, renowned for being the creator of the world's first artificial nuclear reactor, the Chicago Pile-1, and a member of the Manhattan Project. He has been called the "architect of the nuclear age" and the "architect of the atomic bomb". He was one of very few physicists to excel in both theoretical and experimental physics. Fermi was awarded the 1938 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on induced radioactivity by neutron bombardment and for the discovery of transuranium elements. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Enrico Fermi is the 24th most popular physicist (down from 19th in 2019), the 92nd most popular biography from Italy (down from 57th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Italian Physicist.

Enrico Fermi is most famous for the invention of the first nuclear reactor.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Enrico Fermi ranks 24 out of 851. Before him are J. J. Thomson, James Prescott Joule, Ernest Rutherford, Edward Victor Appleton, Werner Heisenberg, and William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin. After him are John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, Georg Ohm, Robert Hooke, Maria Goeppert Mayer, Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, and Owen Willans Richardson.

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Among people born in 1901, Enrico Fermi ranks 5. Before him are Hirohito, Walt Disney, Werner Heisenberg, and Marlene Dietrich. After him are Sukarno, Louis Armstrong, Rudolf Höss, Jacques Lacan, Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia, Fulgencio Batista, and Clark Gable. Among people deceased in 1954, Enrico Fermi ranks 4. Before him are Frida Kahlo, Henri Matisse, and Alan Turing. After him are Heinz Guderian, Robert Capa, Otto Diels, Princess Märtha of Sweden, Colette, Gideon Sundback, André Derain, and Getúlio Vargas.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Enrico Fermi ranks 92 out of 5,161. Before him are Claudio Monteverdi (1567), Pope Innocent III (1160), Pope Pius III (1439), Sophia Loren (1934), Florence Nightingale (1820), and Luciano Pavarotti (1935). After him are Pope Benedict XIV (1675), Umberto Eco (1932), Pope Pius V (1504), Giacomo Casanova (1725), Pope Paul III (1468), and Pope Linus (1).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Italy

Among physicists born in Italy, Enrico Fermi ranks 3. Before him are Alessandro Volta (1745), and Evangelista Torricelli (1608). After him are Luigi Galvani (1737), Emilio Segrè (1905), Laura Bassi (1711), Francesco Maria Grimaldi (1618), Ettore Majorana (1906), Carlo Rubbia (1934), Giovanni Battista Venturi (1746), Giovanni Battista Amici (1786), and Bruno Pontecorvo (1913).

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