Enrico Fermi
29 September 1901 – 28 November 1954
Italian-American physicist who built the first nuclear reactor and made foundational contributions to quantum theory and particle physics. He won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1938.
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Emigrated to the United States with his family
2 January 1939
The family sailed directly from the Nobel ceremony rather than return to Fascist Italy, in part to protect his Jewish wife Laura.
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Achieved the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction with Chicago Pile-1
2 December 1942
Source:
en.wikipedia.org
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