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Enrico Fermi

(1901–1954)

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Part of the book series: Historical, Philosophical, and Socio-Political Papers ((2876,volume B / 7))

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Enrico Fermi was born on September 29, 1901, in Rome, Italy. He died on the twenty-eighth of November, 1954, in Chicago. He was one of the great physicists of the past quarter-century.

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Wigner, E.P. (2001). Enrico Fermi. In: Mehra, J. (eds) Historical and Biographical Reflections and Syntheses. Historical, Philosophical, and Socio-Political Papers, vol B / 7. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-07791-7_11

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