Enrico Fermi

Enrico Fermi (September 29, 1901 – November 28, 1954) was an Italian-born physicist of United States citizenship most noted for his work on beta decay, the development of the first nuclear reactor, and for the development of quantum theory. Fermi won the 1938 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on induced radioactivity.

References

• Laura Fermi, Atoms in the Family: My Life with Enrico Fermi (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1954) ISBN 0226243672
• Richard Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1986).
• C. P. Snow, "The Physicists" (Toronto: Little, Brown, 1981)
• Fermi's audio biography at the University of Chicago website. (http://www-news.uchicago.edu/fermi/resources.html)