Friday, November 28, 2025

Enrico Fermi's Death Anniversary

 

Enrico Fermi, who passed away on 18 November 1954, aged 53, in Chicago, Illinois, U.S., was an Italian-born American scientist who became one of the chief architects of the nuclear age. He developed the mathematical statistics required to clarify a large class of subatomic phenomena, explored nuclear transformations caused by neutrons, and directed the first controlled chain reaction involving nuclear fission. He was awarded the 1938 Nobel Prize for Physics.

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