Enrico Fermi

Enrico Fermi was physicist. Born in Rome September 29, 1901. Died in Chicago on November 29, 1954.

fermions named for him.

built the first nuclear pile and the first controlled nuclear chain reaction. Was a leader in the manhattan project. Was awarded the Nobel Prize/Physics in 1938 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."