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This theoretical underpinning paved the way for Niels Bohr, born in Denmark, and Enrico Fermi to make their breakthrough.
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It was in a University of Chicago squash court that Enrico Fermi set off the first controlled nuclear chain reaction in 1942.
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In all, five of the first eight winners of what became known as the Enrico Fermi Award (so named after his death) were immigrants.
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We use Power Ball technology to pick a potential Albert Einstein, Enrico Fermi, Jonas Salk, Mies van der Rohe or Igor Sikorsky (all immigrants).
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Italian-born physicist Enrico Fermi, a winner of the Nobel Prize, contacted the U.S. Navy about these concerns but could not convince officials of the gravity of the situation.
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They are known as fermions, after Enrico Fermi, the physicist who built the first nuclear reactor, and who also gave his name to Fermilab, a particle-physics laboratory near Chicago.
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The first winner was the Italian-born Enrico Fermi.
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