Enrico Fermi

Born: 29 September 1901, Rome, Italy

Died: 28 November 1954, Chicago, IL, USA

Affiliation at the time of the award: Rome University, Rome, Italy

Prize motivation: “for his demonstrations of the existence of new radioactive elements produced by neutron irradiation, and for his related discovery of nuclear reactions brought about by slow neutrons”

Field: nuclear physics
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