Enrico+Fermi

=**Biography: **=
 * By:Christian Winter **

Enrico Fermi was born September 29, 1901 in Rome, Italy. Enrico was the youngest of three in his family. Giulio, his older brother, was a year older and Maria, his sister, was two years older. Enrico and his brother would sometimes play with and even build mechanical and electric motors. Although Enrico’s family wasn’t particularly scientifically oriented, he began to show an interest in physics after the death of his older brother. Enrico was 14 when his brother died. He tried to relieve the pain of his brother’s death by reading physics books, which ultimately lead to Enrico’s interest in physics. Enrico studied physics with one of his classmates, Enrico Persico, whom later became a quantum physics professor at the University of Turin in Italy. Together they worked on scientific projects such as building gyroscopes and measuring the Earth’s magnetic field. Fermi's interest in physics was further encouraged Adolfo Amidei, a colleague of Enrico’s father, who gave him several books on physics and mathematics. In 1918, Enrico applied to the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Italy's most prestigious college. For the entrance exam, Enrico was asked to write an essay. Fermi chose to write it on Fourier Analysis, which is so complex that even today mathematicians struggle to understand it, yet he was only 17 when he was able to comprehend it. At Scuola, Enrico studied physics and was appoint to a Professor position at the University of Rome when he was 24. At the University of Rome, Enrico and his team conducted the first experiments in atomic science, by which he discovered beta decay. He married Laura Capon, a science student at the University, on July 19, 1928. Fermi immigrated to America in 1938 to escape the racial laws enacted in Italy, as his wife was Jewish. He died on November 28, 1954.

 ** *Fermi and Laura **  
 * *Beta Decay **


 * Contributions to Science: **

Fermi found out that by slowing down a neutron, it would create a larger impact on the nucleus during fission. He also found that the speed that a neutron was impacted differed for every element. These two discoveries won him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1938.
 * Nobel Prize: **

 Although Fermi had unknowingly split a nucleus during his earlier experiments, credit for splitting an atom was given to Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann in 1939. However, Fermi realized that by splitting an atom's nucleus, that atom's neutrons could be used as projectiles to split another atom's nucleus, causing a nuclear chain reaction. Each time a nucleus was split, an enormous amount of energy was released. Fermi's discovery of the nuclear chain reaction and then his discovery of a way to control this reaction led to both the construction of atomic bombs and of nuclear power.
 * Nuclear Fission: **



<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">In 1942, Fermi was recruited to work on the top secret nuclear missile program for the United States, the Manhattan Project. Fermi helped build the first self-sustaining nuclear reactor in Chicago, the CP-1.During World War II, Fermi worked diligently on the <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> Manhattan Project <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">to create an atomic bomb. After the war, however, he believed the human toll from these bombs was too large. In 1946, Fermi worked as a professor at the University of Chicago's Institute of Nuclear Studies. In 1949, Fermi argued against the development of a hydrogen bomb.But it was built anyway.
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