Fascinating facts about Enrico Fermi
inventor of nuclear reaction in 1942.

After the war, in 1946, Fermi became a professor of physics and the director of the new Institute of Nuclear Studies at the University of Chicago. As in his days at Rome, students from all over the world came to Chicago to study with him. His career was cut short by his untimely death from Cancer on November 28, 1954, in Chicago. The Enrico Fermi Award honoring his memory is given annually to the individual who has contributed most to the development, use, or control of atomic energy.

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Nobel Prize Inventors   from The Great Idea Finder

ON THE BOOKSHELF:
Atoms in the Family : My Life With Enrico Fermi
Laura Fermi / Paperback / University of Chicago Press (1995)
She traces her husband's career from his childhood, when he taught himself physics, through his rise in the Italian university system concurrent with the rise of fascism, to his receipt of the Nobel Prize.
Notes on Quantum Mechanics : A Course Given by Enrico Fermi at the University of Chicago
Enrico Fermi, Robert A. Schluter / Paperback  188 pages / University of Chicago Press (July 1995)
The lecture notes presented here in facsimile were prepared by Enrico Fermi for students taking his course at the University of Chicago in 1954. They are vivid examples of his unique ability to lecture simply and clearly on the most essential aspects of quantum mechanics.
Thermodynamics
Enrico Fermi / Paperback / Dover Pubns
No student of physics or chemistry should be without this clear, cogent examination of thermodynamics. As one of the top scientists of this century, one can consider Fermi's thermo text as science that's "straight from the horse's mouth."
Enrico Fermi: And the Revolutions of Modern Physics
by Dan Cooper / Hardcover: 144 pages / Oxford University Press (December 1998)
In 1938, at the age of 37, Enrico Fermi was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics. That same year he emigrated from Italy to the United States and, in the course of his experiments, discovered nuclear fission a process which forms the basis of nuclear power and atomic bombs.

ON THE SCREEN:
Nuclear Tech
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From the dawn of the nuclear age to a sneak peek at an ultra-modern fusion reactor, See how nuclear science has made a mark in fields as diverse as medicine and international security, meet the scientists who are developing the next generation of reactors, and ride along as spent uranium rods are transported from power plants to secure storage facilities.

ON THE WEB:
Encarta Encyclopedia
From the Microsoft Encarta Online Encyclopedia.
(URL: encarta.msn.com/)
National Inventors Hall of Fame
Fermi was inducted in 1976 for his invention Neutronic Reactor Nuclear Fission Patent Number  2,708,656. Located at Inventure Place, the online home of creative minds.
(URL: www.invent.org/hall_of_fame/58.html)
The Enrico Fermi Institute
This site at the University of Chicago's Enrico Fermi Institute discusses Enrico Fermi and his experiments including the Manhattan project.
Enrico Fermi Biography
This site at the FermiLab discusses Enrico Fermi and his accomplishments.
(URL: www.fnal.gov/pub/about/whatis/enricofermi.html)
The Most Important People of the Century
Enrico Fermi, was the last of the double-threat physicists: a genius at creating both esoteric theories and elegant experiments. Article by RICHARD RHODES.
(URL: www.time.com/time/time100/scientist/profile/fermi.html)
The Enrico Fermi Award
The Enrico Fermi Award is a Presidential award—one of the oldest and most prestigious science and technology awards given by the U.S. Government.
(URL: www.sc.doe.gov/sc-5/fermi/index.htm)
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1938
The Nobel Prize for Physics was awarded to Fermi for his work on the artificial radioactivity produced by neutrons, and for nuclear reactions brought about by slow neutrons.
(URL: nobelprize.org/physics/laureates/1938/fermi-bio.html)