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- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 29 September 1901
- Died
- 28 November 1954
- Place of birth
- Rome
- Place of death
- Chicago
- Sex or gender
- male
- Given name
- Enrico
- Family name
- Fermi
- Spouse
- Laura Fermi
- Field of work
- nuclear physics, quantum mechanics, statistical mechanics, physics, nuclear reaction, quantum theory, particle physics, theoretical physics, experimental physics
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of Italy, Italy, United States
- Native language
- Italian
- Religion
- agnosticism
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Physics, Max Planck Medal, Rumford Prize, Matteucci Medal, Franklin Medal, Hughes Medal, Henry Norris Russell Lectureship, National Inventors Hall of Fame, Silliman Memorial Lectures, Barnard Medal for Meritorious Service to Science, Richtmyer Memorial Lecture Award, Fellow of the American Physical Society
- academic degree
- Doctor of Philosophy
- archives at
- University of Chicago Library
- cause of death
- stomach cancer
- described by source
- Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1969–1978), Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947), Physicists: Biographical Dictionary
- doctoral advisor
- Luigi Puccianti
- doctoral student
- Tsung-Dao Lee, Ettore Majorana, Geoffrey Chew, Oreste Piccioni, Sam Treiman, Herbert L. Anderson, Marvin Leonard Goldberger, Emilio G. Segrè, Owen Chamberlain, Mario Ageno, Richard Garwin, Willem Malkus
- educated at
- University of Pisa, Scuola Normale Superiore. Classe di Scienze, Leiden University, University of Göttingen
- employer
- University of Florence, Sapienza University of Rome, Columbia University, University of Chicago, University of Göttingen, Leiden University, Enrico Fermi Institute
- Erdős number
- 3
- influenced by
- Otto Hahn, Joseph Fourier
- interested in
- physics
- manner of death
- natural causes
- member of
- Royal Society, German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, American Philosophical Society, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze detta dei XL, National Academy of Sciences, Academy of Sciences of Turin, Accademia Tiberina, Romanian Academy, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
- name in native language
- Enrico Fermi
- nominated for
- Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- notable work
- Fermi–Dirac statistics, Fermi's golden rule, Fermi paradox, Thomas–Fermi model, Fermi problem, Fermi's interaction, Fermi contact interaction, Fermi–Pasta–Ulam–Tsingou problem
- participant in
- Manhattan Project
- place of burial
- Oak Woods Cemetery
- residence
- United States, Rome, Italy
- student
- Chen-ning Yang, Murray Gell-Mann, Mario Ageno, Tsung-Dao Lee, Emilio G. Segrè, Owen Chamberlain
- student of
- Max Born, Paul Ehrenfest
- topic's main category
- Category:Enrico Fermi
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