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Enrico Fermi
First Nuclear Reactor (Chicago Pile-1)
Born 1901 ๐ฎ๐น Italy 1942
โ๏ธ Known For
1
Built Chicago Pile-1 โ first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction
2
Nobel Prize in Physics (1938) for work on radioactivity
3
Fermi paradox โ "Where is everybody?" (on alien civilisations)
Father of the nuclear age
Quick Facts
Field
โ๏ธ Physics
Country
๐ฎ๐น Italy
Born
1901
Key Year
1942
Invention
First Nuclear Reactor (Chicago Pile-1)