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Enrico Fermi

A man in a dark suit and tie stands against a neutral background, exuding a formal and composed demeanor.

Italian-American physicist, 1901–1954. He won the 1938 Nobel Prize for work on neutron-induced radioactivity and used the trip to Stockholm to defect with his Jewish wife to the United States. On 2 December 1942 he supervised the first self-sustaining chain reaction beneath the stands of Stagg Field in Chicago. He was unusual among twentieth-century physicists in being both a major theorist and a major experimentalist.

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