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{{Infobox scientist
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|name              = Enrico Fermi
|image            = Enrico Fermi 1943-49.jpg
|image_size        = 250px
|caption          = Enrico Fermi (1901–1954)
|birth_date        = {{Birth date|1901|9|29|df=y}}
|birth_place      = Rome, [[Kingdom of Italy|Italy]]
|death_date        = {{death date and age|1954|11|28|1901|9|29|df=y}}
|death_place      = Chicago, United States
|citizenship      = Italy  (1901–54)<br />United States (1944–54)
|fields            = [[Physics]]
|workplaces        = [[Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa|Scuola Normale Superiore]]<br />[[University of Göttingen]]<br />[[Leiden University]]<br />[[University of Florence]]<br />[[Sapienza University of Rome]]<br />[[Columbia University]]<br />[[University of Chicago]]
|alma_mater        = Scuola Normale Superiore
|doctoral_advisor  = [[Luigi Puccianti]]<ref name="mathgene"/>
|doctoral_students = {{Plainlist|
* [[Harold Agnew]]<ref name="agnew">{{cite doi|10.1038/503040a}}</ref>
* [[Edoardo Amaldi]]
* [[Owen Chamberlain]]
* [[Geoffrey Chew]]
* [[Jerome Isaac Friedman|Jerome Friedman]]
* [[Marvin Goldberger]]
* [[Tsung-Dao Lee]]
* [[Ettore Majorana]]
* [[Arthur Rosenfeld]]
* [[Emilio Segrè]]
* [[Sam Treiman]]<ref name="mathgene">{{MathGenealogy|id=14167}}</ref>}}
|notable_students  = {{Plainlist|
*[[Jack Steinberger]]
*[[Chen Ning Yang]]}}
|known_for        ={{Plainlist|
* [[Nuclear chain reaction]]
* [[Fermi–Dirac statistics]]
*Theory of [[beta decay]]}}
|awards            = {{Plainlist|
* [[Matteucci Medal]] (1926)
* [[Nobel Prize for Physics|Nobel Prize]] (1938)
* [[Hughes Medal]] (1942)
* [[Medal for Merit]] (1946)
* [[Franklin Medal]] (1947)
* [[Fellow of the Royal Society|ForMemRS]] (1950)<ref name="frs"/>
* [[Rumford Prize]] (1953)}}
|signature        = Enrico Fermi signature.svg
|spouse            = [[Laura Fermi]]
}}
'''Enrico Fermi''' ({{IPA-it|enˈri.ko ˈfeɾ.mi|lang}}; 29 September 1901&nbsp;– 28 November 1954) was an Italian physicist, best known for his work on [[Chicago Pile-1]] (the first [[nuclear reactor]]), and for his contributions to the development of [[Quantum mechanics|quantum theory]], [[nuclear physics|nuclear]] and [[particle physics]], and [[statistical mechanics]]. He is one of the men referred to as the "father of the atomic bomb".<ref name="obit"/> Fermi held several patents related to the use of nuclear power, and was awarded the 1938 [[Nobel Prize in Physics]] for his work on [[induced radioactivity]] by neutron bombardment and the discovery of [[transuranic elements]]. He was widely regarded as one of the very few physicists to excel both [[theoretical physicist|theoretically]] and [[experimental physicist|experimentally]].
 
Fermi's first major contribution was to statistical mechanics. After [[Wolfgang Pauli]] announced his [[Pauli exclusion principle|exclusion principle]] in 1925, Fermi followed with a paper in which he applied the principle to an [[ideal gas]], employing a statistical formulation now known as [[Fermi–Dirac statistics]]. Today, particles that obey the exclusion principle are called "[[fermion]]s". Later Pauli postulated the existence of an uncharged invisible particle emitted along with an electron during [[beta decay]], to satisfy the law of [[conservation of energy]]. Fermi took up this idea, developing a model that incorporated the postulated particle, which he named the "[[neutrino]]". His theory, later referred to as [[Fermi's interaction]] and still later as [[weak interaction]], described one of the [[fundamental interaction|four fundamental forces of nature]]. Through experiments inducing radioactivity with recently discovered [[neutron]]s, Fermi discovered that [[slow neutron]]s were more easily [[neutron capture|captured]] than fast ones, and developed the [[Fermi age equation]] to describe this. After bombarding [[thorium]] and [[uranium]] with slow neutrons, he concluded that he had created new elements; although he was awarded the Nobel Prize for this discovery, the new elements were subsequently revealed to be [[fission products]].
 
Fermi left Italy in 1938 to escape new [[Italian Racial Laws]] that affected his Jewish wife Laura. He emigrated to the United States where he worked on the [[Manhattan Project]] during World War II. Fermi led the team that designed and built [[Chicago Pile-1]], that went [[Nuclear_reactor_physics#Criticality|critical]] on 2 December 1942, demonstrating the first artificial self-sustaining [[nuclear chain reaction]]. He was on hand when the [[X-10 Graphite Reactor]] at [[Oak Ridge, Tennessee]] went critical in 1943, and when the [[B Reactor]] at the [[Hanford Site]] did so the next year. At [[Los Alamos National Laboratory|Los Alamos]] he headed F Division, part of which worked on [[Edward Teller]]'s [[thermonuclear]] "[[History of the Teller–Ulam design|Super]]" bomb. He was present at the [[Trinity test]] on 16 July 1945, where he used his [[Fermi method]] to estimate the bomb's yield.
 
After the war, Fermi served under Oppenheimer on the influential General Advisory Committee, which advised the [[United States Atomic Energy Commission|Atomic Energy Commission]] on nuclear matters and policy. Following the detonation of the first Soviet [[fission bomb]] in August 1949, he strongly opposed the development of a hydrogen bomb on both moral and technical grounds. He was among the scientists who testified on Oppenheimer's behalf at the 1954 [[Oppenheimer security hearing|hearing]] that resulted in the denial of the latter's security clearance. Fermi did important work in particle physics, especially related to [[pion]]s and [[muon]]s, and he speculated that [[cosmic rays]] arose through material being accelerated by magnetic fields in interstellar space. Many awards, concepts, and institutions are [[list of things named after Enrico Fermi|named after Fermi]], including the [[Enrico Fermi Award]], the [[Enrico Fermi Institute]], the [[Fermilab|Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory]], the [[Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope]], the [[Enrico Fermi Nuclear Generating Station]], and the synthetic element [[fermium]].
 
==Early life==
Enrico Fermi was born in Rome on 29 September 1901. He was the third child of Alberto Fermi, a division head (''{{lang|it|Capo Divisione}}'') in the Ministry of Railways, and Ida de Gattis, an elementary school teacher.{{sfn|Segrè|1970|pp=3–4, 8}}{{sfn|Amaldi|2001|p=23}} His only sister, Maria, was two years older than him, and his brother, Giulio, was a year older. After the two boys were sent to a rural community to be [[wet nurse]]d, Enrico rejoined his family in Rome when he was two and a half.{{sfn|Cooper|1999|p=19}} While he came from a Roman Catholic family and was baptized in accord with his grandparents' wishes, the family was not religious, and Fermi was an [[agnostic]] throughout his adult life. As a young boy he shared his interests with his brother Giulio. They built electric motors and played with electrical and mechanical toys.{{sfn|Segrè|1970|pp=5–6}} Giulio died during the administration of anesthesia for an operation on a throat abscess in 1915.{{sfn|Fermi|1954|pp=15–16}}
 
One of Fermi's first sources for the study of physics was a book found at the local market of [[Campo de' Fiori]] in Roma. The 900-page book from 1840, ''Elementorum physicae mathematicae'', was written in Latin by [[Jesuit]] Father [[Andrea Caraffa]], a professor at the [[Collegio Romano]]. It covered [[mathematics]], [[classical mechanics]], [[astronomy]], [[optics]], and [[acoustics]], to the extent that they were understood when it was written.{{sfn|Segrè|1970|p=7}}{{sfn|Bonolis|2001|p=315}} Fermi befriended another scientifically inclined student, [[Enrico Persico]],{{sfn|Amaldi|2001|p=24}} and the two worked together on scientific projects such as building [[gyroscope]]s and measuring the [[Earth's magnetic field]]. Fermi's interest in physics was further encouraged by his father's colleague Adolfo Amidei, who gave him several books on physics and mathematics that he read and assimilated quickly.{{sfn|Segrè|1970|pp=8–10}}
 
==''Scuola Normale Superiore'' in Pisa==
Fermi graduated from high school in July 1918 and, at Amidei's urging, applied to the ''[[Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa|Scuola Normale Superiore]]'' in [[Pisa]]. Having lost one son, his parents were reluctant to let him move away from home for four years while attending the [[Sapienza University of Rome]], but in the end they acquiesced. The school provided free lodging for students, but candidates had to take a difficult entrance exam that included an essay. The given theme was "Specific characteristics of Sounds". The 17-year-old Fermi chose to derive and solve the [[partial differential equation]] for a vibrating rod, applying [[Fourier analysis]] in the solution. The examiner, Professor Giuseppe Pittarelli from the Sapienza University of Rome, interviewed Fermi and concluded that his entry would have been commendable even for a doctoral degree. Fermi achieved first place in the classification of the entrance exam.{{sfn|Segrè|1970|pp=11–13}}
 
During his years at the ''Scuola Normale Superiore'', Fermi teamed up with a fellow student named [[Franco Rasetti]] with whom he would indulge in light-hearted pranks and who would later become Fermi's close friend and collaborator. In Pisa, Fermi was advised by the director of the physics laboratory, [[Luigi Puccianti]], who acknowledged that there was little that he could teach Fermi, and frequently asked Fermi to teach him something instead. Fermi's knowledge of quantum physics reached such a high level that Puccianti asked him to organize seminars on the topic.{{sfn|Segrè|1970|pp=15–18}} During this time Fermi learned [[tensor calculus]], a mathematical technique invented by [[Gregorio Ricci]] and [[Tullio Levi-Civita]] that was needed to demonstrate the principles of [[general relativity]].{{sfn|Bonolis|2001|p=320}} Fermi initially chose mathematics as his major, but soon switched to physics. He remained largely self-taught, studying general relativity, [[quantum mechanics]], and [[atomic physics]].{{sfn|Bonolis|2001|pp=317–319}}
 
[[Image:World line2.svg|left|thumb|240px|A [[light cone]] is a three-dimensional surface of all possible light rays arriving at and departing from a point in [[spacetime]]. Here, it is depicted with one spatial dimension suppressed. The time line is the vertical axis.]]
In September 1920, Fermi was admitted to the Physics department. Since there were only three students in the department—Fermi, Rasetti, and [[Nello Carrara]]—Puccianti let them freely use the laboratory for whatever purposes they chose. Fermi decided that they should research [[X-ray crystallography]], and the three worked to produce a Laue photograph—an X-ray photograph of a crystal.{{sfn|Segrè|1970|p=20}} During 1921, his third year at the university, Fermi published his first scientific works in the Italian journal ''[[Nuovo Cimento]]''. The first was entitled "On the dynamics of a rigid system of electrical charges in translational motion" ({{Lang-it|Sulla dinamica di un sistema rigido di cariche elettriche in moto traslatorio}}). A sign of things to come was that the [[mass]] was expressed as a [[tensor]]—a mathematical construct commonly used to describe something moving and changing in three-dimensional space. In classical mechanics, mass is a [[Scalar (physics)|scalar]] quantity, but in relativity it changes with velocity. The second paper was "On the electrostatics of a uniform gravitational field of electromagnetic charges and on the weight of electromagnetic charges" ({{lang-it|Sull'elettrostatica di un campo gravitazionale uniforme e sul peso delle masse elettromagnetiche}}). Using general relativity, Fermi showed that a charge has a weight equal to U/c<sup>2</sup>, where U was the electrostatic energy of the system, and c is the [[speed of light]].{{sfn|Bonolis|2001|pp=317–319}}
 
The first paper seemed to point out a contradiction between the electrodynamic theory and the relativistic one concerning the calculation of the electromagnetic masses, as the former predicted a value of 4/3 U/c<sup>2</sup>. Fermi addressed this the next year in a paper "Concerning a contradiction between [[electrodynamic]] and the relativistic theory of electromagnetic mass" in which he showed that the apparent contradiction was a consequence of relativity. This paper was sufficiently well-regarded that it was translated into German and published in the German scientific journal ''[[Physikalische Zeitschrift]]'' in 1922.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Über einen Widerspruch zwischen der elektrodynamischen und relativistischen Theorie der elektromagnetischen Masse |language=German |journal=Physikalische Zeitschrift |volume=23 |pages=340–344 |url=https://en.wikisource.org/?curid=1059488 |accessdate=17 January 2013}}</ref> That year, Fermi submitted his article "On the phenomena occurring near a [[world line]]" ({{lang-it|Sopra i fenomeni che avvengono in vicinanza di una linea oraria}}) to the Italian journal ''[[I Rendiconti dell'Accademia dei Lincei]]''. In this article he examined the [[Principle of Equivalence]], and introduced the so-called "[[Fermi coordinates]]". He proved that on a world line close to the time line, space behaves as if it were a [[Euclidean space]].{{sfn|Bertotti|2001|p=115}}{{sfn|Bonolis|2001|p=321}}
 
Fermi submitted his thesis, "A theorem on probability and some of its applications" ({{lang-it|Un teorema di calcolo delle probabilità ed alcune sue applicazioni}}), to the ''Scuola Normale Superiore'' in July 1922, and received his [[Laurea#Former status of the Laurea degree|laurea]] at the unusually young age of 21. The thesis was on [[X-ray diffraction]] images. [[Theoretical physics]] was not yet considered a discipline in Italy, and the only thesis that would have been accepted was one on [[experimental physics]]. For this reason, Italian physicists were slow in embracing the new ideas like relativity coming from Germany. Since Fermi was quite at home in the lab doing experimental work, this did not pose insurmountable problems for him.{{sfn|Bonolis|2001|p=321}}
 
[[File:fermi.gif|thumb|240px|right|[[Fermi–Dirac statistics]]. Fermi function F(<math>\epsilon \ </math>) vs. energy <math>\epsilon \ </math>, with μ&nbsp;=&nbsp;0.55&nbsp;eV and for various temperatures in the range {{convert|50|to|375|K|C}}.]]
While writing the appendix for the Italian edition of the book ''The Mathematical Theory of Relativity'' by [[August Kopff]] in 1923, Fermi was the first to point out that hidden inside the famous [[Mass–energy equivalence|Einstein equation]] ({{nowrap|''E'' {{=}} ''mc''<sup>2</sup>}}) was an enormous amount of [[nuclear potential energy]] to be exploited. "It does not seem possible, at least in the near future", he wrote, "to find a way to release these dreadful amounts of energy—which is all to the good because the first effect of an explosion of such a dreadful amount of energy would be to smash into smithereens the physicist who had the misfortune to find a way to do it."{{sfn|Bonolis|2001|p=321}}
 
Fermi decided to travel abroad, and spent a semester studying under [[Max Born]] at the [[University of Göttingen]], where he met [[Werner Heisenberg]] and [[Pascual Jordan]]. Fermi then studied in [[Leiden]] with [[Paul Ehrenfest]] from September to December 1924 on a fellowship from the [[Rockefeller Foundation]] obtained through the intercession of the mathematician [[Vito Volterra]]. Here Fermi met [[Hendrik Lorentz]] and [[Albert Einstein]], and became good friends with [[Samuel Goudsmit]] and [[Jan Tinbergen]].  From January 1925 to late 1926, Fermi taught [[mathematical physics]] and [[theoretical mechanics]] at the [[University of Florence]], where he teamed up with Rasetti to conduct a series of experiments on the effects of magnetic fields on mercury vapour. He also participated in seminars at the Sapienza University of Rome, giving lectures on quantum mechanics and [[solid state physics]].{{sfn|Bonolis|2001|pp=321–324}}
 
After [[Wolfgang Pauli]] announced his [[Pauli exclusion principle|exclusion principle]] in 1925, Fermi responded with a paper "On the quantisation of the perfect monoatomic gas" ({{lang-it|Sulla quantizzazione del gas perfetto monoatomico}}), in which he applied the exclusion principle to an ideal gas. The paper was especially notable for Fermi's statistical formulation, which  describes the distribution of particles in [[physical system|systems]] of many [[identical particles]] that obey the exclusion principle. This was independently developed soon after by the British physicist [[Paul Dirac]], who also showed how it was related to the [[Bose–Einstein statistics]]. Accordingly, it is now known as [[Fermi–Dirac statistics]].{{sfn|Bonolis|2001|pp=329–330}} Following Dirac, particles that obey the exclusion principle are today called "[[fermion]]s", while those that do not are called "[[boson]]s".{{sfn|Cooper|1999|p=31}}
 
==Professor in Rome==
Professorships in Italy were granted by competition ({{lang-it|concorso}}) for a vacant chair, the applicants being rated on their publications by a committee of professors. Fermi applied for a chair of mathematical physics at the [[University of Cagliari]] on [[Sardinia]], but was narrowly passed over in favour of [[Giovanni Giorgi]].{{sfn|Fermi|1954|pp=37–38}} In 1926, at the age of 24, he applied for a professorship at the Sapienza University of Rome. This was a new chair, one of the first three in theoretical physics in Italy, that had been created by the Minister of Education at the urging of Professor [[Orso Mario Corbino]], who was the University's professor of experimental physics, the Director of the Institute of Physics, and a member of [[Benito Mussolini]]'s cabinet. Corbino, who also chaired the selection committee, hoped that the new chair would raise the standard and reputation of physics in Italy.{{sfn|Segrè|1970|p=45}} The committee chose Fermi ahead of Enrico Persico and [[Aldo Pontremoli]],{{sfn|Fermi|1954|p=38}} and Corbino helped Fermi recruit his team, which was soon joined by notable students such as [[Edoardo Amaldi]], [[Bruno Pontecorvo]], [[Ettore Majorana]] and [[Emilio Segrè]], and by Franco Rasetti, whom Fermi had appointed as his assistant.{{sfn|Alison|1957|p=127}} They were soon nicknamed the "[[Via Panisperna boys]]" after the street where the Institute of Physics was located.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.phys.uniroma1.it/DipWeb/museo/fermi.html |title=Enrico Fermi e i ragazzi di via Panisperna |language=Italian |publisher=University of Rome |accessdate=20 January 2013}}</ref>
 
[[File:Ragazzi di via Panisperna.jpg|thumb|Fermi and his students (the [[Via Panisperna boys]]) in the courtyard of Rome University's Physics Institute in Via Panisperna, about 1934. From Left to right: [[Oscar D'Agostino]], [[Emilio Segrè]], [[Edoardo Amaldi]], [[Franco Rasetti]] and Fermi]]
Fermi married [[Laura Fermi|Laura Capon]], a science student at the University, on 19 July 1928.{{sfn|Segrè|1970|p=61}} They had two children: Nella, born in January 1931, and Giulio, born in February 1936.{{sfn|Cooper|1999|pp=38–39}} On 18 March 1929, Fermi was appointed a member of the [[Royal Academy of Italy]] by  Mussolini, and on 27 April he joined the [[Fascist Party]]. He later opposed Fascism when the 1938 [[Italian Racial Laws|racial laws]] were promulgated by Mussolini in order to bring Italian Fascism ideologically closer to German [[National Socialism]]. These laws threatened Laura, who was Jewish, and put many of Fermi's research assistants out of work.{{sfn|Alison|1957|p=130}}<ref>{{cite web |url=http://fermi.lib.uchicago.edu/fermibiog.htm |publisher=[[University of Chicago]] |title=About Enrico Fermi |accessdate=20 January 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://archiviostorico.corriere.it/2001/ottobre/02/Cosi_Fermi_scopri_natura_vessatoria_co_0_0110022882.shtml |authorlink=Paolo Mieli |first=Paolo  |last=Mieli  |title=''Così Fermi scoprì la natura vessatoria del fascismo'' |language=Italian |newspaper=[[Corriere della Sera]] |date=2 October 2001 |accessdate=20 January 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.archivi.beniculturali.it/DGA-free/Strumenti/Strumenti_CLXVII.pdf |author=Direzione generale per gli archivi |title=''Reale accademia d'Italia:inventario dell'archivio'' |language=Italian |year=2005, Ministero per i beni culturali e ambientali |location=Rome |page=xxxix |accessdate=20 January 2013}}</ref>
 
During their time in Rome, Fermi and his group made important contributions to many practical and theoretical aspects of physics. In 1928, he published his ''Introduction to Atomic Physics'' ({{Lang-it|Introduzione alla fisica atomica}}), which provided Italian university students with an up-to-date and accessible text. Fermi also conducted public lectures and wrote popular articles for scientists and teachers in order to spread knowledge of the new physics as widely as possible.{{sfn|Bonolis|2001|pp=333–335}} Part of his teaching method was to gather his colleagues and graduate students together at the end of the day and go over a problem, often from his own research.{{sfn|Bonolis|2001|pp=333–335}}{{sfn|Amaldi|2001|p=38}} A sign of success was that foreign students now began to come to Italy. The most notable of these was the German physicist [[Hans Bethe]],{{sfn|Fermi|1954|p=217}} who came to Rome as a Rockefeller Foundation fellow, and collaborated with Fermi on a 1932 paper "On the Interaction between Two Electrons" ({{Lang-de|Über die Wechselwirkung von Zwei Elektronen}}).{{sfn|Bonolis|2001|pp=333–335}}
 
At this time, physicists were puzzled by [[beta decay]], in which an [[electron]] was emitted from the [[atomic nucleus]]. To satisfy the law of [[conservation of energy]], Pauli postulated the existence of an invisible particle with no charge and little or no mass that was also emitted at the same time. Fermi took up this idea, which he developed in a tentative paper in 1933, and then a longer paper the next year that incorporated the postulated particle, which Fermi called a "[[neutrino]]".{{sfn|Amaldi|2001|pp=50–51}}{{sfn|Bonolis|2001|p=346}}<ref name="Beta decay">{{Cite journal | last = Fermi | first = E.| title = Fermi's Theory of Beta Decay (English translation by Fred L. Wilson, 1968)| journal = [[American Journal of Physics]] | year = 1934  | url = http://microboone-docdb.fnal.gov/cgi-bin/RetrieveFile?docid=953;filename=FermiBetaDecay1934.pdf;version=1 |accessdate=20 January 2013}}</ref> His theory, later referred to as [[Fermi's interaction]], and still later as the theory of the [[weak interaction]], described one of the [[fundamental interaction|four fundamental forces of nature]]. The neutrino was detected after his death, and his interaction theory showed why it was so difficult to detect. When he submitted his paper to the British journal ''[[Nature (journal)|Nature]]'', that journal's editor turned it down because it contained speculations which were "too remote from physical reality to be of interest to readers".{{sfn|Bonolis|2001|p=346}} Thus Fermi saw the theory published in Italian and German before it was published in English.{{sfn|Alison|1957|p=127}}
 
In the introduction to the 1968 English translation, physicist Fred L. Wilson noted that:{{quote|Fermi's theory, aside from bolstering Pauli's proposal of the neutrino, has a special significance in the history of modern physics. One must remember that only the naturally occurring β emitters were known at the time the theory was proposed. Later when positron decay was discovered, the process was easily incorporated within Fermi's original framework. On the basis of his theory, the capture of an orbital electron by a nucleus was predicted and eventually observed. With time much experimental data has accumulated. Although peculiarities have been observed many times in β decay, Fermi's theory always has been equal to the challenge.<br/>The consequences of the Fermi theory are vast. For example, β spectroscopy was established as a powerful tool for the study of nuclear structure. But perhaps the most influential aspect of this work of Fermi is that his particular form of the β interaction established a pattern which has been appropriate for the study of other types of interactions. It was the first successful theory of the creation and annihilation of material particles. Previously, only photons had been known to be created and destroyed.<ref name="Beta decay"/>}}
 
In January 1934, [[Irène Joliot-Curie]] and [[Frédéric Joliot]] announced that they had bombarded elements with [[alpha particle]]s and induced [[radioactivity]] in them.<ref name="JoliotCurie1934a">{{cite journal|last2=Joliot|first2=Frédéric|last1=Joliot-Curie|first1=Irène|title=Un nouveau type de radioactivité|trans_title=A new type of radioactivity|journal=Comptes rendus hebdomadaires des séances de l'Académie des Sciences|volume=198|issue=January–June 1934|date=15 January 1934|language=French|pages=254–256|url=http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k31506/f254.image}}</ref><ref name="JoliotCurie1934b">{{cite journal|last1=Joliot|first1=Frédéric|last2=Joliot-Curie|first2=Irène|title=Artificial Production of a New Kind of Radio-Element|journal=Nature|volume=133|issue=3354 |year=1934|pages=201–202 |doi=10.1038/133201a0|url=http://jnm.snmjournals.org/content/5/2/xii.full.pdf|bibcode = 1934Natur.133..201J }}</ref> By March, Fermi's assistant [[Gian-Carlo Wick]] had provided a theoretical explanation using Fermi's theory of beta decay. Fermi decided to switch to experimental physics, using the [[neutron]], which [[James Chadwick]] had discovered in 1932.{{sfn|Amaldi|2001a|pp=152–153}} In March 1934, Fermi wanted to see if he could induce radioactivity with Rasetti's [[polonium]]-[[beryllium]] [[neutron source]]. Neutrons, which had no electric charge, and so would not be deflected by the positively charged nucleus. This meant that they needed much less energy to penetrate the nucleus than charged particles, and so would not require a [[particle accelerator]], which the Via Panisperna boys did not have.{{sfn|Bonolis|2001|pp=347–351}}{{sfn|Amaldi|2001a|pp=153–156}}
 
Fermi had the idea to resort to replacing Rasetti's [[polonium]]-[[beryllium]] [[neutron source]] with a [[radon]]-[[beryllium]] [[neutron source]], which he created by filling a glass bulb with beryllium powder, evacuating the air, and then adding 50 m[[Curie|Ci]] of radon gas, supplied by [[Giulio Cesare Trabacchi]].{{sfn|Segrè|1970|p=73}}<ref name="De Gregorio2005">{{cite journal|last1=De Gregorio|first1=Alberto G.|title=Neutron physics in the early 1930s|journal=Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences|volume=35 |issue=2|year=2005 |pages=293–340 |doi=10.1525/hsps.2005.35.2.293 |arxiv=physics/0510044}}</ref> This created a much stronger neutron source, the effectiveness of which declined with the 3.8-day [[half-life]] of radon. He knew that this source would also emit [[gamma ray]]s, but, on the basis of his theory, he believed that this would not affect the results of the experiment. He started by bombarding [[platinum]], an element with a high [[atomic number]] that was readily available, without success. He turned to [[aluminium]], which emitted an [[alpha particle]] and produced [[sodium]], which then decayed into [[magnesium]] by beta particle emission. He tried [[lead]], without success, and then [[fluorine]] in the form of [[calcium fluoride]], which emitted an alpha particle and produced [[nitrogen]], decaying into [[oxygen]] by beta particle emission. In all, he induced radioactivity in 22 different elements.<ref>{{cite journal |journal=Physics in Perspective |title=Enrico Fermi's Discovery of Neutron-Induced Artificial Radioactivity: The Influence of His Theory of Beta Decay|last=Guerra |first=Francesco |last2=Robotti |first2=Nadia |date=December 2009 |volume=11 |issue=4 |doi=10.1007/s00016-008-0415-1 |pages=379–404|bibcode = 2009PhP....11..379G }}</ref> Fermi rapidly reported the discovery of neutron-induced radioactivity in the Italian journal ''La Ricerca Scientifica'' on 25 March 1934.<ref name="De Gregorio2005"/><ref>{{cite journal|first=Enrico|last= Fermi|title=Radioattività indotta da bombardamento di neutroni|journal= La Ricerca scientifica |volume=1 |issue=5|date= 25 March 1934|page= 283|url=http://www.phys.uniroma1.it/DipWeb/museo/collezione%20Fermi/documento2.htm|language=Italian}}</ref><ref name="FermiAmaldi1934">{{cite doi|10.1098/rspa.1934.0168}}</ref>
 
[[File:Beta-minus Decay.svg|thumb|left|[[Beta decay]]. A [[neutron]] decays into a [[proton]], and an [[electron]] is emitted. In order for the total energy in the system to remain the same, Pauli and Fermi postulated that a [[neutrino]] (<math>\bar{\nu}_e</math>) was also emitted]]
The natural radioactivity of [[thorium]] and [[uranium]] made it hard to determine what was happening when these elements were bombarded with neutrons but, after correctly eliminating the presence of elements lighter than uranium but heavier than lead, Fermi concluded that they had created new elements, which he called [[hesperium]] and [[ausonium]].{{sfn|Bonolis|2001|pp=347–349}}{{sfn|Amaldi|2001a|pp=153–156}} The chemist [[Ida Noddack]] criticised this work, suggesting that some of the experiments could have produced lighter elements than lead rather than new, heavier elements. Her suggestion was not taken seriously at the time because her team had not carried out any experiments with uranium, and its claim to have discovered masurium ([[technetium]]) was disputed. At that time, fission was thought to be improbable if not impossible on theoretical grounds. While physicists expected elements with higher atomic numbers to form from neutron bombardment of lighter elements, nobody expected neutrons to have enough energy to split a heavier atom into two light element fragments in the manner that Noddack suggested.{{sfn|Amaldi|2001a|pp=161–162}}{{sfn|Bonolis|2001|pp=347–349}}
 
The Via Panisperna boys also noticed some unexplained effects. The experiment seemed to work better on a wooden table than a marble table top. Fermi remembered that Joliot-Curie and Chadwick had noted that [[paraffin wax]] was effective at slowing neutrons, so he decided to try that. When neutrons were passed through paraffin wax, they induced a hundred times as much radioactivity in [[silver]] compared with when it was bombarded without the paraffin. Fermi guessed that this was due to the hydrogen atoms in the paraffin. Those in wood similarly explained the difference between the wooden and the marble table tops. This was confirmed by repeating the effect with water. He concluded that collisions with hydrogen atoms slowed the neutrons.{{sfn|Bonolis|2001|pp=347–352}}{{sfn|Amaldi|2001a|pp=153–156}} The lower the atomic number of the nucleus it collides with, the more energy a neutron loses per collision, and therefore the less collisions that are required to slow a neutron down by a given amount.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://energyfromthorium.com/2007/02/13/a-few-good-moderators-the-numbers/ |title=A Few Good Moderators: The Numbers |publisher=The Energy From Thorium Foundation |accessdate=24 September 2013}}</ref> Fermi realised that this induced more radioactivity because [[slow neutron]]s were more easily [[neutron capture|captured]] than fast ones. He developed a [[diffusion equation]] to describe this, which became known as the [[Fermi age equation]].{{sfn|Bonolis|2001|pp=347–352}}{{sfn|Amaldi|2001a|pp=153–156}}
 
In 1938 Fermi received the [[Nobel Prize in Physics]] at the age of 37 for his "demonstrations of the existence of new radioactive elements produced by neutron irradiation, and for his related discovery of [[nuclear reaction]]s brought about by slow neutrons".{{sfn|Cooper|1999|p=51}} After Fermi received the prize in [[Stockholm]], he did not return home to Italy, but rather continued on to New York City along with his family, where they applied for permanent residency. The decision to move to America and become American citizens was primarily a result of the racial laws in Italy.{{sfn|Alison|1957|p=130}}
 
==Manhattan Project==
Soon after Fermi's arrival in New York City on 2 January 1939,{{sfn|Cooper|1999|p=52}} he was offered five different chairs, and chose to work at [[Columbia University]],{{sfn|Persico|2001|p=40}} where he had already given summer lectures in 1936.{{sfn|Bonolis|2001|p=352}} He received the news that in December 1938, the German chemists [[Otto Hahn]] and [[Fritz Strassmann]] had detected the element [[barium]] after bombarding uranium with neutrons,<ref>{{cite journal
|last=Hahn |first=O.
| authorlink = Otto Hahn
|last2=Strassmann |first2=F.
| authorlink2 = Fritz Strassmann
|year=1939
|language=German
|title=Über den Nachweis und das Verhalten der bei der Bestrahlung des Urans mittels Neutronen entstehenden Erdalkalimetalle
|trans_title=On the detection and characteristics of the alkaline earth metals formed by irradiation of uranium with neutrons
|journal=[[Naturwissenschaften]]
|volume=27 |issue=1 |pages=11–15
|doi=10.1007/BF01488241
|bibcode = 1939NW.....27...11H }} {{De icon}}</ref> which [[Lise Meitner]] and her nephew [[Otto Frisch]] correctly interpreted as the result of [[nuclear fission]]. Frisch confirmed this experimentally on 13 January 1939.<ref name="Frisch1939">{{cite journal|last1=Frisch|first1=O. R.|title=Physical Evidence for the Division of Heavy Nuclei under Neutron Bombardment|journal=Nature|volume=143|issue=3616|year=1939|pages=276–276 |doi=10.1038/143276a0|url=http://dbhs.wvusd.k12.ca.us/webdocs/Chem-History/Frisch-Fission-1939.html|bibcode = 1939Natur.143..276F }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal
|last=Meitner |first=L.
|authorlink = Lise Meitner
|last2=Frisch |first2=O.R.
|authorlink2=Otto Robert Frisch
|year=1939
|title=Disintegration of Uranium by Neutrons: a New Type of Nuclear Reaction
|url=http://www.nature.com/physics/looking-back/meitner/index.html
|journal=[[Nature (journal)|Nature]]
|volume=143 |issue=3615 |pages=239–240
|doi=10.1038/143239a0
|bibcode = 1939Natur.143..239M }}</ref> The news of Meitner and Frisch's interpretation of Hahn and Strassmann's discovery crossed the Atlantic with [[Niels Bohr]], who was to lecture at [[Princeton University]]. [[Isidor Isaac Rabi]] and [[Willis Lamb]], two Columbia University physicists working at Princeton, found out about it and carried it back to Columbia. Rabi said he told Enrico Fermi, but Fermi later gave the credit to Lamb:{{sfn|Rhodes|1986|p=267}}
{{quote|I remember very vividly the first month, January, 1939, that I started working at the [[Pupin Laboratories]] because things began happening very fast. In that period, Niels Bohr was on a lecture engagement at the Princeton University and I remember one afternoon Willis Lamb came back very excited and said that Bohr had leaked out great news. The great news that had leaked out was the discovery of fission and at least the outline of its interpretation. Then, somewhat later that same month, there was a meeting in Washington where the possible importance of the newly discovered phenomenon of fission was first discussed in semi-jocular earnest as a possible source of [[nuclear power]].<ref>{{cite journal
|last=Allison |first=S.K.
| authorlink= Samuel King Allison
|last2=Segrè |first2=E.
| authorlink2 = Emilio Segrè
|last3=Anderson |first3=H.L.
| authorlink3= Herbert L. Anderson
|year=1955
|title=Enrico Fermi 1901–1954
|journal=[[Physics Today]]
|volume=8 |issue=1 |pages=9
|doi=10.1063/1.3061909}}</ref>}}
Noddack was proven right after all. Fermi had dismissed the possibility of fission on the basis of his calculations, but he had not taken into account the [[binding energy]] that would appear when a [[nuclide]] with an odd number of neutrons absorbed an extra neutron.{{sfn|Amaldi|2001a|pp=161–162}} For Fermi, the news came as a profound embarrassment, as the [[transuranic elements]] that he had partly been awarded the Nobel Prize for discovering had not been transuranic elements at all, but [[fission products]]. He added a footnote to this effect to his Nobel Prize acceptance speech.<ref>{{cite web|last=Fermi|first=Enrico|title=Artifical radioactivity produced by neutron bombardment (Nobel Lecture)|url=http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1938/fermi-lecture.pdf|accessdate=19 October 2013|date=12 December 1938}}</ref>{{sfn|Rhodes|1986|p=267}}
 
[[File:Stagg Field reactor.jpg|thumb|left|Illustration of [[Chicago Pile-1]], the first nuclear reactor to achieve a self-sustaining chain reaction. Designed by Fermi. it consisted of uranium and uranium oxide in a cubic lattice embedded in graphite.]]
The scientists at Columbia decided that they should try to detect the energy released in the nuclear fission of uranium when bombarded by neutrons. On 25 January 1939, Fermi was a member of the experimental team at Columbia University which conducted the first nuclear fission experiment in the United States, in the basement of [[Pupin Hall]]; the other members of the team were [[Herbert L. Anderson]], [[Eugene T. Booth]], [[John R. Dunning]], [[G. N. Glasoe|G. Norris Glasoe]], and [[Francis G. Slack]].<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Anderson|first1=H.L.|last2=Booth|first2=E. |last3=Dunning|first3=J.|last4=Fermi |first4=E.|last5=Glasoe |first5=G. |last6=Slack|first6=F.|title=The Fission of Uranium|journal=[[Physical Review]]|volume=55|issue=5|date=16 February 1939|pages=511–512 |doi=10.1103/PhysRev.55.511.2|bibcode = 1939PhRv...55..511A }}</ref> The next day, the Fifth Washington Conference on Theoretical Physics began in Washington, D.C. under the joint auspices of [[The George Washington University]] and the [[Carnegie Institution of Washington]]. There, the news on nuclear fission was spread even further, which fostered many more experimental demonstrations.{{sfn|Rhodes|1986|pp=269–270}}
 
Few weeks after French scientists [[Hans von Halban]], [[Lew Kowarski]] and [[Frédéric Joliot-Curie]],<ref name="Von HalbanJoliot1939">{{cite journal|last1=Von Halban |first1=H.|last2=Joliot |first2=F.|last3=Kowarski |first3=L. |title=Number of Neutrons Liberated in the Nuclear Fission of Uranium|journal=Nature|volume=143|issue=3625|date=22 April 1939|pages=680–680 |doi=10.1038/143680a0|bibcode = 1939Natur.143..680V }}</ref> Fermi and Anderson demonstrated that uranium bombarded by neutrons emitted more neutrons than it absorbed.<ref name="AndersonFermi1939">{{cite journal|last1=Anderson|first1=H.|last2=Fermi|first2=E.|last3=Hanstein|first3=H.|title=Production of Neutrons in Uranium Bombarded by Neutrons|journal=Physical Review|volume=55|issue=8|date=16 March 1939|pages=797–798|doi=10.1103/PhysRev.55.797.2|bibcode = 1939PhRv...55..797A }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last=Anderson|first=H.L.|title=Early Days of Chain Reaction|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=IgwAAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA10|date=April 1973|publisher=Educational Foundation for Nuclear Science, Inc.|journal=Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists}}</ref>  [[Leó Szilárd]] obtained {{convert|200|kg}} of [[uranium oxide]] from Canadian [[radium]] producer [[Eldorado Mining and Refining Limited|Eldorado Gold Mines Limited]], allowing Fermi and [[Herbert L. Anderson]] to conduct experiments with fission on a much larger scale.<ref name=Anderson1939/> Fermi and Szilárd collaborated on a design of a device to achieve a self-sustaining nuclear reaction—a [[nuclear reactor]]. Due to the rate of absorption of neutrons by the hydrogen in water, it was unlikely that a self-sustaining reaction could be achieved with natural uranium and water as a [[neutron moderator]].  Fermi suggested, based on his work with neutrons, that uranium oxide could be used in the form of blocks, with [[graphite]] as a moderator instead of water. This would reduce the rate of capture of the neutrons, and make it theoretically possible to achieve a self-sustaining chain reaction. Szilárd then came up with what proved to be a workable design, a pile of uranium oxide blocks surrounded by graphite bricks.{{sfn|Salvetti|2001|pp=186–188}}  Szilárd, Anderson and Fermi jointly published a paper on "Neutron Production in Uranium" <ref name=Anderson1939>{{cite journal|last1=Anderson|first1=H.|last2=Fermi|first2=E.|last3=Szilárd|first3=L. |title=Neutron Production and Absorption in Uranium|journal=[[Physical Review]]|volume=56|issue=3|date= 1 August 1939|pages=284–286|doi=10.1103/PhysRev.56.284|url=http://docs.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/psf/box5/a64g01.html|bibcode = 1939PhRv...56..284A }}</ref> but their work habits and personalities were different, and Fermi had trouble working with Szilárd.{{sfn|Bonolis|2001|pp=356–357}}
 
Fermi was the first to warn military leaders about the potential impact of nuclear energy, giving a lecture on the subject at the [[Navy Department]] on 18&nbsp;March 1939. The response fell short of what he had hoped for, although the Navy agreed to provide $1,500 towards further research at Columbia.{{sfn|Salvetti|2001|p=185}} In August 1939, three Hungarian physicists—Szilárd, [[Eugene Wigner]] and [[Edward Teller]]—prepared the [[Einstein–Szilárd letter]], which they persuaded Einstein to sign, warning [[President of the United States|President]] [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] of the probability that Germany was planning to build an [[atomic bomb]]. Because of the German [[invasion of Poland]] on 1 September, it was October before they could arrange for the letter to be personally delivered. Roosevelt was sufficiently concerned that he assembled the [[S-1 Uranium Committee]] to investigate the matter.{{sfn|Salvetti|2001|pp=188–189}}
 
[[File:Enrico Fermi ID badge.png|right|thumb|Fermi's ID badge photo from [[Los Alamos National Laboratory|Los Alamos]]]]
The S-1 Uranium Committee provided money for Fermi to buy graphite,{{sfn|Rhodes|1986|pp=314–317}} and he built a pile of graphite bricks on the seventh floor of the Pupin laboratory.{{sfn|Salvetti|2001|p=190}} By August 1941, he had six tons of uranium oxide and thirty tons of graphite, which he used to build a still larger pile in the Schermerhorn Hall at Columbia.{{sfn|Salvetti|2001|p=195}} When the S-1 Uranium Committee next met on 18 December 1941, there was a heightened sense of urgency in the wake of the [[attack on Pearl Harbor]] and the subsequent United States entry into [[World War II]]. While most of the effort thus far had been directed at three different processes for producing [[enriched uranium]], S-1 Uranium Committee member [[Arthur Compton]] determined that [[plutonium]] was a feasible alternative which could be mass-produced in nuclear reactors by the end of 1944.{{sfn|Salvetti|2001|pp=194–196}} To achieve this, he decided to concentrate the plutonium work at the [[University of Chicago]]. Fermi reluctantly moved, and his team became part of the new [[Metallurgical Laboratory]] there.{{sfn|Rhodes|1986|pp=399–400}}
 
Given the number of unknown factors involved in creating a self-sustaining nuclear reaction, it seemed inadvisable to do so in a densely populated area. Compton arranged with [[Colonel (United States)|Colonel]] [[Kenneth Nichols]], the head of the Army's [[Manhattan District]], for land to be acquired in the Argonne Forest about {{convert|20|miles}} from Chicago, and [[Stone & Webster]] was contracted to develop the site. This work was halted by an industrial dispute. Fermi then persuaded Compton that he could build a reactor in the [[squash (sport)|squash]] court under [[Stagg Field]] at the University of Chicago. Construction of the pile began on 6 November 1942, and [[Chicago Pile-1]] went [[Nuclear_reactor_physics#Criticality|critical]] on 2 December.{{sfn|Salvetti|2001|pp=198–202}}  The shape of the pile was intended to be roughly spherical, but as work proceeded Fermi calculated that criticality could be achieved without finishing the entire pile as planned.<ref>{{cite journal | last=Fermi |first=E. | title=The Development of the First Chain Reaction Pile | journal=[[Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society]] | year=1946 | volume=90 | pages=20–24 | arxiv= | bibcode= | doi= | jstor=3301034}}</ref>
 
This experiment was a landmark in the quest for energy, and it was typical of Fermi's approach. Every step was carefully planned, every calculation meticulously done.{{sfn|Salvetti|2001|pp=198–202}}  When the first self-sustained nuclear chain reaction was achieved, Compton made a coded phone call to [[James B. Conant]], the chairman of the [[National Defense Research Committee]].{{quote|
I picked up the phone and called Conant. He was reached at the President's office at [[Harvard University]].
"Jim," I said, "you'll be interested to know that the Italian navigator has just landed in the new world." Then, half apologetically, because I had led the S-l Committee to believe that it would be another week or more before the pile could be completed, I added, "the earth was not as large as he had estimated, and he arrived at the new world sooner than he had expected."
 
"Is that so," was Conant's excited response. "Were the natives friendly?"
"Everyone landed safe and happy."{{sfn|Compton|1956|p=144}} }}
 
[[File:Atomic physicists Ernest O. Lawrence, Enrico Fermi, and Isidor Rabi - NARA - 558595.tif|thumb|left||Fermi (centre), with [[Ernest O. Lawrence]] (left) and [[Isidor Isaac Rabi]] (right) |alt=Three men talking. The one on the left is wearing a tie and leans against a wall. He stands head and shoulders above the other two. The one in the centre is smiling, and wearing an open-necked shirt. The one on the right wears a shirt and lab coat. All three have photo ID passes. ]]
To continue the research where it would not pose a public health hazard, the reactor was disassembled and moved to the Argonne site, where Fermi directed research on reactors and other fundamental sciences, revelling in the myriad of research opportunities that the reactor provided by an abundance of neutrons.{{sfn|Bonolis|2001|p=366}} The laboratory soon branched out from physics and engineering into using the reactor for biological and medical research. Initially, Argonne was run by Fermi as part of the University of Chicago, but it became a separate entity with Fermi as its director in May 1944.{{sfn|Hewlett|Anderson|1962|p=207}}
 
Just in case something went wrong, Fermi was on hand at [[Oak Ridge National Laboratory|Oak Ridge]] to witness the air-cooled [[X-10 Graphite Reactor]] go critical on 4 November 1943. The technicians woke him early so that he could see it happen.{{sfn|Hewlett|Anderson|1962|pp=208–211}} Getting X-10 operational was another milestone in the plutonium project. It provided data on reactor design, training for [[DuPont]] staff in reactor operation, and produced the first small quantities of reactor-bred plutonium.{{sfn|Jones|1985|p=205}} Fermi became an American citizen in July 1944, the earliest date the law allowed.{{sfn|Segrè|1970|p=104}}
 
In September 1944, Fermi inserted the first uranium fuel slug into the [[B Reactor]] at the [[Hanford Site]], the production reactor designed to breed plutonium in large quantities. Like X-10, it had been designed by Fermi's team at the Metallurgical Laboratory, and built by DuPont, but it was much larger, and was water-cooled. Over the next few days, 838 tubes were loaded, and the reactor went critical. Shortly after midnight on 27 September, the operators began to withdraw the [[control rod]]s to initiate production. At first all appeared to be well, but around 03:00, the power level started to drop and by 06:30 the reactor had shut down completely. The Army and DuPont turned to Fermi's team for answers. The cooling water was investigated to see if there was a leak or contamination. The next day the reactor suddenly started up again, only to shut down once more a few hours later. The problem was traced to [[neutron poison]]ing from [[xenon-135]], a fission product with a [[half-life]] of 9.2 hours. Fortunately, DuPont had deviated from the Metallurgical Laboratory's original design in which the reactor had 1,500 tubes arranged in a circle, and had added an additional 504 tubes to fill in the corners. The scientists had originally considered this over-engineering a waste of time and money, but Fermi realized that by loading all 2,004 tubes, the reactor could reach the required power level and efficiently produce plutonium.{{sfn|Hewlett|Anderson|1962|pp=304–307}}{{sfn|Jones|1985|pp=220–223}}
 
[[File:Fermiac.jpg|thumb|right|upright|The [[FERMIAC]], an [[analog device]] invented by Enrico Fermi to implement studies of neutron transport]]
In mid-1944, [[Robert Oppenheimer]] persuaded Fermi to join his Project Y in [[Los Alamos, New Mexico]].{{sfn|Bonolis|2001|pp=368–369}} Arriving in September, Fermi was appointed an associate director of the laboratory, with broad responsibility for nuclear and theoretical physics, and was placed in charge of F Division, which was named after him. F Division consisted of four branches: the F-1  Super and General Theory under Teller, which was responsible for the development of a [[thermonuclear]] "[[History of the Teller–Ulam design|Super]]" bomb; the F-2 Water Boiler under L. D. P. King, which looked after the "water boiler" research reactor; F-3 Super Experimentation under [[Egon Bretscher]]; and the F-4 Fission Studies under Anderson.{{sfn|Hawkins|1961|p=213}} Fermi observed the [[Trinity test]] on 16 July 1945, and conducted an experiment dropping strips of paper to estimate the bomb's yield. He simply measured how far they were blown by the explosion using his paces, and came up with a figure of ten kilotons of TNT; the actual yield was about 18.6 kilotons.{{sfn|Rhodes|1986|pp=674–677}}
 
Along with Oppenheimer, Compton and [[Ernest Lawrence]], Fermi was part of the scientific panel that advised the [[Interim Committee]] on target selection. The panel agreed with the committee that atomic bombs be used without warning against an industrial target.{{sfn|Jones|1985|pp=531-532}} Like others at the Los Alamos Laboratory, Fermi found out about the [[atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki]] from the [[public address system]] in the technical area. Fermi did not believe that atomic bombs would scare people into not starting wars, nor did he think that the time was ripe for [[world government]]. He therefore did not join the [[Association of Los Alamos Scientists]].{{sfn|Fermi|1954|pp=244-245}}
 
==Post-war work==
Fermi became a professor at the University of Chicago on 1 July 1945,{{sfn|Segrè|1970|p=157}} although he did not depart the Los Alamos Laboratory with his family until 31 December 1945.{{sfn|Segrè|1970|p=167}} The Metallurgical Laboratory became the [[Argonne National Laboratory]] on 1 July 1946, the first of the [[United States Department of Energy National Laboratories|national laboratories]] established by the Manhattan Project.{{sfn|Holl|Hewlett|Harris|1997|pp=xix–xx}} The short distance between Chicago and Argonne allowed Fermi to work at both places. At Argonne he continued experimental physics, investigating [[neutron scattering]] with [[Leona Marshall]].{{sfn|Segrè|1970|p=171}} He also discussed theoretical physics with [[Maria Mayer]], helping her develop insights into [[Spin–orbit interaction|spin–orbit coupling]] that would lead to her receiving the Nobel Prize.{{sfn|Segrè|1970|p=172}}
 
The Manhattan Project was replaced by [[United States Atomic Energy Commission|Atomic Energy Commission]] (AEC) on 1 January 1947.{{sfn|Hewlett|Anderson|1962|p=643}} Fermi served on the AEC General Advisory Committee, an influential scientific committee chaired by Robert Oppenheimer.{{sfn|Hewlett|Anderson|1962|p=648}} He also liked to spend a few weeks of each year at the Los Alamos National Laboratory,{{sfn|Segrè|1970|p=175}} where he collaborated with [[Nicholas Metropolis]],{{sfn|Segrè|1970|p=179}} and with [[John von Neumann]] on [[Rayleigh–Taylor instability]], the science of what occurs at the border between two fluids of different densities.{{sfn|Bonolis|2001|p=381}}
 
Following the detonation of the first Soviet [[fission bomb]] in August 1949, Fermi, along with Isidor Rabi, wrote a strongly worded report for the committee, opposing the development of a hydrogen bomb on moral and technical grounds.{{sfn|Hewlett|Duncan|1969|pp=380–385}} Nonetheless, Fermi continued to participate in work on the hydrogen bomb at Los Alamos as a consultant. Along with [[Stanislaw Ulam]], he calculated that not only would the amount of [[tritium]] needed for Teller's model of a thermonuclear weapon be prohibitive, but a [[Nuclear fusion|fusion reaction]] could still not be assured to propagate even with this large quantity of tritium.{{sfn|Hewlett|Duncan|1969|pp=527–530}} Fermi was among the scientists who testified on Oppenheimer's behalf at the [[Oppenheimer security hearing]] in 1954 that resulted in denial of Oppenheimer's security clearance.{{sfn|Cooper|1999|pp=102–103}}
 
In his later years, Fermi continued teaching at the University of Chicago. His PhD students in the post-war period included [[Owen Chamberlain]], [[Geoffrey Chew]], [[Jerome Isaac Friedman|Jerome Friedman]], [[Marvin Goldberger]], [[Tsung-Dao Lee]], [[Arthur Rosenfeld]] and [[Sam Treiman]].<ref name="mathgene"/><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1990/friedman-autobio.html |title=Jerome I. Friedman&nbsp;– Autobiography |publisher=The Nobel Foundation |year=1990 |accessdate=16 March 2013}}</ref> [[Jack Steinberger]] was a graduate student.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1988/steinberger-bio.html |accessdate=15 August 2013 |title=Jack Steinberger&nbsp;– Biographical |publisher=Nobel Foundation }}</ref> Fermi conducted important research in particle physics, especially related to [[pion]]s and [[muon]]s. He made the first predictions of pion-[[nucleon]] resonance,{{sfn|Segrè|1970|p=179}} relying on [[statistical methods]], since he reasoned that exact answers were not required when the theory was wrong anyway.{{sfn|Bonolis|2001|pp=374–379}} In a paper co-authored with [[Chen Ning Yang]], he speculated that pions might actually be composite particles.<ref>{{cite doi|10.1103/PhysRev.76.1739}}</ref> The idea was elaborated by [[Shoichi Sakata]]. It has since been supplanted by the [[quark model]], in which the pion is made up of quarks, which completed Fermi's model, and vindicated his approach.{{sfn|Jacob|Maiani|2001|pp=254–258}}
 
Fermi wrote a paper "On the Origin of [[cosmic radiation|Cosmic Radiation]]" in which he proposed that cosmic rays arose through material being accelerated by magnetic fields in interstellar space, which led to a difference of opinion with Teller.{{sfn|Bonolis|2001|pp=374–379}} Fermi examined the issues surrounding magnetic fields in the arms of a [[spiral galaxy]].{{sfn|Bonolis|2001|p=386}} He mused about what is now referred to as the "[[Fermi paradox]]": the contradiction between the presumed probability of the existence of extraterrestrial life and the fact that contact has not been made.{{sfn|Jones|1985a|pp=1–3}}
 
Toward the end of his life, Fermi questioned his faith in society at large to make wise choices about nuclear technology. He said:
{{quote|Some of you may ask, what is the good of working so hard merely to collect a few facts which will bring no pleasure except to a few long-haired professors who love to collect such things and will be of no use to anybody because only few specialists at best will be able to understand them? In answer to such question[s] I may venture a fairly safe prediction.
<p/>History of science and technology has consistently taught us that scientific advances in basic understanding have sooner or later led to technical and industrial applications that have revolutionized our way of life. It seems to me improbable that this effort to get at the structure of matter should be an exception to this rule. What is less certain, and what we all fervently hope, is that man will soon grow sufficiently adult to make good use of the powers that he acquires over nature.{{sfn|Fermi|2004|p=142}} }}
 
Fermi died at age 53 of stomach cancer in his home in Chicago,<ref name="obit">{{cite news |url=http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0929.html |title=Enrico Fermi Dead at 53; Architect of Atomic Bomb |newspaper=[[New York Times]] |date=29 November 1954 |accessdate=21 January 2013 }}</ref> and was interred at [[Oak Woods Cemetery]].{{sfn|Hucke|Bielski|1999|pp=147, 150}}
 
A commemorative plaque remembers him in the [[Basilica of Santa Croce]], [[Florence]], a church also known as "''Temple of Italian Glories''", for the many burials of artists, scientists and prominent figures in Italian history.<ref>[http://www.gotterdammerung.org/photo/travel/italy/florence/churches/basilica-di-santa-croce/060907-175358%20The%20Tomb%20of%20Enrico%20Fermi%20at%20Santa%20Croce.jpg Photo: Enrico Fermi in Santa Croce, Florence]</ref>
 
==Impact and legacy==
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|quote=As a person, Fermi seemed simplicity itself. He was extraordinarily vigorous and loved games and sport. On such occasions his ambitious nature became apparent. He played tennis with considerable ferocity and when climbing mountains acted rather as a guide. One might have called him a benevolent dictator. I remember once at the top of a mountain Fermi got up and said: "Well, it is two minutes to two, let's all leave at two o'clock"; and of course, everybody got up faithfully and obediently. This leadership and self-assurance gave Fermi the name of "The Pope" whose pronouncements were infallible in physics. He once said: "I can calculate anything in physics within a factor 2 on a few sheets: to get the numerical factor in front of the formula right may well take a physicist a year to calculate, but I am not
interested in that." His leadership could go so far that it was a danger to the independence of the person working with him. I recollect once, at a party at his house when my wife cut the bread, Fermi came along and said he had a different philosophy on bread-cutting and took the knife out of my wife's hand and proceeded with the job because he was convinced that his own method was superior. But all this did not offend at all, but rather charmed everybody into liking Fermi. He had very few interests outside physics and when he once heard me play on Teller's piano he confessed that his interest in music was restricted to simple tunes.
|source=Egon Bretscher<ref name="frs">{{cite doi|10.1098/rsbm.1955.0006|noedit}}</ref>
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===Legacy===
Fermi received numerous awards in recognition of his achievements, including the [[Matteucci Medal]] in 1926, the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1938, the [[Hughes Medal]] in 1942, the [[Franklin Medal]] in 1947, and the [[Rumford Prize]] in 1953. He was awarded the [[Medal for Merit]] in 1946 for his contribution to the Manhattan Project.{{sfn|Alison|1957|pp=135–136}} In 1999, ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' named Fermi on its list of the top 100 persons of the twentieth century.<ref>{{cite news |newspaper=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,26473,00.html |title=''Time'' 100 Persons of the Century |date=6 June 1999 |accessdate=2 March 2013 }}</ref> Fermi was widely regarded as an unusual case of a 20th-century  physicist who excelled both theoretically and experimentally. The historian of physics, [[C. P. Snow]], wrote that "if Fermi had been born a few years earlier, one could well imagine him discovering [[Ernest Rutherford|Rutherford's]] atomic nucleus, and then developing [[Bohr model|Bohr's theory]] of the hydrogen atom. If this sounds like hyperbole, anything about Fermi is likely to sound like hyperbole".{{sfn|Snow|1981|p=79}}
 
Fermi was known as an inspiring teacher, and was noted for his attention to detail, simplicity, and careful preparation of his lectures.{{sfn|Ricci|2001|pp=297–302}} Later, his lecture notes were transcribed into books.{{sfn|Ricci|2001|p=286}} His papers and notebooks are today in the University of Chicago.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://fermi.lib.uchicago.edu/fermicollection.htm |title=Enrico Fermi Collection |publisher=[[University of Chicago]] |accessdate=22 January 2013}}</ref> [[Victor Weisskopf]] noted how Fermi "always managed to find the simplest and most direct approach, with the minimum of complication and sophistication."{{sfn|Salvini|2001|p=5}} Fermi's ability and success stemmed as much from his appraisal of the art of the possible, as from his innate skill and intelligence. He disliked complicated theories, and while he had great mathematical ability, he would never use it when the job could be done much more simply. He was famous for getting quick and accurate answers to problems that would stump other people. Later on, his method of getting approximate and quick answers through back-of-the-envelope calculations became informally known as the "[[Fermi problem|Fermi method]]", and is widely taught.{{sfn|Von Baeyer|1993|pp=3–8}}
 
Fermi was fond of pointing out that [[Alessandro Volta]], working in his laboratory, could have had no idea where the study of electricity would lead.{{sfn|Fermi|1954|p=242}} Fermi is generally remembered for his work on nuclear power and nuclear weapons, especially the creation of the first nuclear reactor, and the development of the first atomic and hydrogen bombs. His scientific work has stood the test of time. This includes his theory of beta decay, his work with non-linear systems, his discovery of the effects of slow neutrons, his study of pion-nucleon collisions, and his Fermi–Dirac statistics. His speculation that a pion was not a fundamental particle pointed the way towards the study of [[quark]]s and [[lepton]]s.{{sfn|Salvini|2001|p=17}}
 
===Things named after Fermi===
[[File:Viaenricofermi.jpg|right|thumb|The sign at Enrico Fermi Street in Rome]]
{{main|List of things named after Enrico Fermi}}
Many things have been named in Fermi's honour. These include the [[Fermilab]] particle accelerator and physics lab in [[Batavia, Illinois]], which was renamed in his honour in 1974,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.fnal.gov/pub/about/whatis/history.html |title=About Fermilab – History |publisher=[[Fermilab]] |accessdate=21 January 2013}}</ref> and the [[Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope]], which was named after him in 2008, in recognition of his work on cosmic rays.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2008/26aug_firstlight/ |publisher=[[National Aeronautics and Space Administration]] |title=First Light for the Fermi Space Telescope |accessdate=21 January 2013}}</ref> Three nuclear reactor installations have been named after him: the [[Fermi 1]] and [[Fermi 2]] [[nuclear power]] plants in [[Newport, Michigan]], the [[Enrico Fermi Nuclear Power Plant (Italy)|Enrico Fermi Nuclear Power Plant]] at [[Trino Vercellese]] in Italy,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://world-nuclear.org/info/inf101.html |title=Nuclear Power in Italy |publisher=World Nuclear Association |accessdate=21 January 2013}}</ref> and the [[RA-1 Enrico Fermi]] research reactor in [[Argentina]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cnea.edu.ar/xxi/ambiental/agua-pura/publicaciones/FolletoColor.pdf |title=Report of the National Atomic Energy Commission of Argentina (CNEA) |publisher=[[CNEA]] |date=November 2004|accessdate=21 January 2013}}</ref>  A synthetic element isolated from the debris of the 1952 [[Ivy Mike]] nuclear test was named [[fermium]], in honour of Fermi's contributions to the scientific community. It follows the element [[einsteinium]], which was discovered with it.{{sfn|Seaborg|1978|p=2}}{{sfn|Hoff|1978|pp=39–48}} Since 1956, the United States Atomic Energy Commission has named its highest honour, the [[Fermi Award]], after him. Recipients of the award include well-known scientists like Otto Hahn, Robert Oppenheimer, Edward Teller and Hans Bethe.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Enrico Fermi Award |url=http://science.energy.gov/fermi |publisher=[[United States Department of Energy]] |accessdate=25 August 2010}}</ref>
 
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* {{cite book |title=Fisica per i Licei |publisher=N. Zanichelli |location=Bologna |year=1929 |language=Italian |oclc=9653646 |authormask=1}}
* {{cite book |title=Molecole e cristalli |publisher=N. Zanichelli |location=Bologna |year=1934|language=Italian |oclc=19918218 |authormask=1}}
* {{cite book |title=Thermodynamics |publisher=Prentice Hall |location=New York |year=1937 |oclc=2379038|authormask=1}}
* {{cite book |title=Fisica per Istituti Tecnici |publisher=N. Zanichelli |location=Bologna |year=1938 |language=Italian |oclc= |authormask=1}}
* {{cite book |last2=Amaldi |first2=Edoardo |authorlink2=Edoardo Amaldi |title=Fisica per Licei Scientifici |publisher=N. Zanichelli |location=Bologna |year=1938|language=Italian |oclc= |authormask=1}}
* {{cite book |title=Elementary particles |publisher=Yale University Press |location=New Haven |year=1951 |oclc=362513 |authormask=1}}
 
For a full list of his papers, see pages 75–78 in <ref name="frs"/>
 
==Patents==
* {{cite patent|country-code=US |patent-number=2206634 |title=Process for the Production of Radioactive Substances |file-date=October 1935 |issue-date=July 1940|status=Patent}}
* {{cite patent|country-code=US |patent-number=2836554 |title=Air Cooled Neutronic Reactor |file-date=May 1945 |issue-date=April 1950|status=Patent}}
* {{cite patent|country-code=US |patent-number=2524379 |title=Neutron Velocity Selector |file-date=September 1945 |issue-date=October 1950|status=Patent}}
* {{cite patent|country-code=US |patent-number=2852461 |title=Neutronic Reactor |file-date=October 1945 |issue-date=September 1953|status=Patent}}
* {{cite patent|country-code=US |patent-number=2708656 |title=Neutronic Reactor |file-date=December 1944 |issue-date=May 1955|status=Patent}}
* {{cite patent|country-code=US |patent-number=2768134 |title=Testing Material in a Neutronic Reactor |file-date=August 1945 |issue-date=October 1956|status=Patent}}
* {{cite patent|country-code=US |patent-number=2780595 |title=Test Exponential Pile |file-date=May 1944 |issue-date=February 1957|status=Patent}}
* {{cite patent|country-code=US |patent-number=2798847 |title=Method of Operating a Neutronic Reactor |file-date=December 1944 |issue-date=July 1957|status=Patent}}
* {{cite patent|country-code=US |patent-number=2807581 |title=Neutronic Reactor |file-date=October 1945 |issue-date=September 1957|status=Patent}}
* {{cite patent|country-code=US |patent-number=2807727 |title=Neutronic Reactor Shield |file-date=January 1946 |issue-date=September 1957|status=Patent}}
* {{cite patent|country-code=US |patent-number=2813070 |title=Method of Sustaining a Neutronic Chain Reacting System |file-date=November 1945 |issue-date=November 1957|status=Patent}}
* {{cite patent|country-code=US |patent-number=2837477 |title=Chain Reacting System |file-date=February 1945 |issue-date=June 1958|status=Patent}}
* {{cite patent|country-code=US |patent-number=2931762 |title=Neutronic Reactor |file-date=May 1945 |issue-date=April 1960|status=Patent}}
* {{cite patent|country-code=US |patent-number=2969307 |title=Method of Testing Thermal Neutron Fissionable Material for Purity |fdate=1945 |issue-date=January 1961|status=Patent}}
 
==Notes==
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==References==
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* {{cite journal |last=Alison |first=Samuel King |authorlink=Samuel King Allison |year=1957 |title=Enrico Fermi, 1901–1954 |journal=Biographical Memoir |volume=30 |publisher=National Academy of Sciences |pages=125–155 |oclc=11772127 |ref=harv }}
* {{cite book |last=Amaldi |first=Edoardo |authorlink=Edoardo Amaldi |contribution=Commemoration of the Academy Fellow Enrico Fermi |pages=23–35 |editor-last=Bernardini |editor-first=C. |editor2-first=Luisa |editor2-last=Bonolis |year=2001 |title=Enrico Fermi: His Work and Legacy |location=Bologna |publisher=Società Italiana di Fisica: Springer |isbn=88-7438-015-1  |oclc=56686431 |ref=harv }}
* {{cite book |last=Amaldi |first=Ugo |contribution=Nuclear Physics from the Nineteen Thirties to the Present Day |title=Enrico Fermi: His Work and Legacy |pages=151–176 |editor-last=Bernardini |editor-first=C. |editor2-first=Luisa |editor2-last=Bonolis |year=2001 |location=Bologna |publisher=Società Italiana di Fisica: Springer |isbn=88-7438-015-1  |oclc=56686431 |ref=CITEREFAmaldi2001a }}
* {{cite book |last=Bertotti |first=Bruno|contribution=Fermi's Coordinates and the Principle of Equivalence |pages=115–125 |editor-last=Bernardini |editor-first=C. |editor2-first=Luisa |editor2-last=Bonolis |year=2001 |title=Enrico Fermi: His Work and Legacy |location=Bologna |publisher=Società Italiana di Fisica: Springer |isbn=88-7438-015-1  |oclc=56686431 |ref=harv }}
* {{cite book |last=Bonolis |first=Luisa |contribution=Enrico Fermi's Scientific Work |pages=314–394 |editor-last=Bernardini |editor-first=C. |editor2-first=Luisa |editor2-last=Bonolis |year=2001 |title=Enrico Fermi: His Work and Legacy |location=Bologna |publisher=Società Italiana di Fisica: Springer |isbn=88-7438-015-1  |oclc=56686431 |ref=harv }}
* {{cite book |last=Compton |first=Arthur |authorlink=Arthur Compton |year=1956 |title=Atomic Quest |location=New York |publisher=Oxford University Press |oclc=173307 |ref=harv}}
* {{cite book |last=Cooper |first=Dan |year=1999 |title=Enrico Fermi: And the Revolutions in Modern physics |location=New York |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=0-19-511762-X |oclc=39508200 |ref=harv }}
* {{cite book  |last=Fermi |first=Enrico |contribution=The Future of Nuclear Physics |editor-last=Cronin |editor-first=J.W |year=2004 |title=Fermi Remembered |publisher=University of Chicago Press |location=Chicago |isbn=0-226-12111-9 |ref=harv }}
* {{cite book |last=Fermi |first=Laura |authorlink=Laura Fermi |year=1954 |title=Atoms in the Family: My Life with Enrico Fermi |location=Chicago |publisher=University of Chicago Press |oclc=537507 |ref=harv}}
* {{cite book |last=Hawkins |first=David |year=1961 |title=Manhattan District History: Project Y – The Los Alamos Project. Volume I: Inception until August 1945 |publisher=[[Los Alamos National Laboratory]] |location=Los Alamos |id=LAMS 2532 |ref=harv}}
* {{cite book |last=Hoff |first=Richard|editor-last=Seaborg |editor-first=Glenn T  |pages=39–49 |contribution=Production of Eisteinium and Fermium in Nuclear Explosions |editor-link=Glenn T. Seaborg |url=http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/92g2p7cd.pdf |title=Proceedings of the Symposium Commemorating the 25th Anniversary of Elements 99 and 100 |date= 23 January 1978 |publisher=[[Los Alamos National Laboratory]] |location=Los Alamos |id=Report LBL-7701 |ref=harv }}
* {{cite book |last=Hewlett |first=Richard G. |authorlink=Richard G. Hewlett |last2=Anderson |first2=Oscar E. |title=The New World, 1939–1946 |location=University Park|publisher=Pennsylvania State University Press |year=1962
|url=http://www.governmentattic.org/5docs/TheNewWorld1939-1946.pdf|isbn=0-520-07186-7|oclc=637004643 |ref=harv }}
* {{cite book|last=Hewlett|first=Richard G.|last2=Duncan|first2=Francis|title=Atomic Shield, 1947–1952|series=A History of the United States Atomic Energy Commission|publisher=Pennsylvania State University Press|location=University Park|year=1969|isbn=0-520-07187-5|oclc=3717478|ref=harv}}
* {{cite book |last=Holl |first=Jack M. |last2=Hewlett |authorlink2=Richard G. Hewlett |first2=Richard G. |last3=Harris |first3=Ruth R. |title=Argonne National Laboratory, 1946–96 |publisher=University of Illinois Press |location=Urbana |year=1997 |isbn=978-0-252-02341-5 |ref=harv}}
* {{cite book |last=Hucke |first=Matt |first2=Ursula |last2=Bielski |title=Graveyards of Chicago: The People, History, Art, and Lore of Cook County Cemeteries |location=Chicago |publisher=Lake Claremont Press |year=1999 |isbn=0-9642426-4-8 |oclc=42849992 |ref=harv}}
* {{cite book |last=Jacob|first=Maurice|first2=Luciano|last2=Maiani|contribution=The Scientific Legacy of Fermi in Particle Physics |pages=241–270 |editor-last=Bernardini |editor-first=C. |editor2-first=Luisa |editor2-last=Bonolis |year=2001 |title=Enrico Fermi: His Work and Legacy |location=Bologna |publisher=Società Italiana di Fisica: Springer |isbn=88-7438-015-1  |oclc=56686431 |ref=harv }}
* {{cite book |last=Jones |first=Eric M. |url=http://www.fas.org/sgp/othergov/doe/lanl/la-10311-ms.pdf |title="Where is Everybody?", An Account of Fermi's Question |publisher=[[Los Alamos National Laboratory]] |location=Los Alamos |id=LA-10311-MS |date=March 1985 |oclc=4434691994 |ref=CITEREFJones1985a}}
* {{cite book |last=Jones |first=Vincent |title=Manhattan: The Army and the Atomic Bomb |publisher=United States Army Center of Military History |location=Washington, D.C. |year=1985 |oclc=10913875 |ref=harv }}
* {{cite book |last=Persico|first=Enrico |authorlink=Enrico Persico |contribution=Commemoration of Enrico Fermi |title=Enrico Fermi: His Work and Legacy |pages=36–44 |editor-last=Bernardini |editor-first=C. |editor2-first=Luisa |editor2-last=Bonolis |year=2001 |location=Bologna |publisher=Società Italiana di Fisica: Springer |isbn=88-7438-015-1  |oclc=56686431 |ref=harv }}
* {{cite book | last = Rhodes |first= Richard |authorlink = Richard Rhodes | year = 1986 | title = The Making of the Atomic Bomb |location=New York | publisher = Simon & Schuster | isbn=978-0-684-81378-3 |oclc=13793436 |ref=harv}}
* {{cite book |last=Ricci|first=Renato Angelo |contribution=Fermi's Last Lessons |pages=286–313 |editor-last=Bernardini |editor-first=C. |editor2-first=Luisa |editor2-last=Bonolis |year=2001 |title=Enrico Fermi: His Work and Legacy |location=Bologna |publisher=Società Italiana di Fisica: Springer |isbn=88-7438-015-1  |oclc=56686431 |ref=harv }}
* {{cite book |last=Salvini|first=Giorgio |contribution=Enrico Fermi: His Life and Comment on his Work |pages=1–20 |editor-last=Bernardini |editor-first=C. |editor2-first=Luisa |editor2-last=Bonolis |year=2001 |title=Enrico Fermi: His Work and Legacy |location=Bologna |publisher=Società Italiana di Fisica: Springer |isbn=88-7438-015-1  |oclc=56686431 |ref=harv }}
* {{cite book |last=Salvetti|first=Carlo|contribution=The Birth of Nuclear Energy: Fermi's Pile |pages=177–203 |editor-last=Bernardini |editor-first=C. |editor2-first=Luisa |editor2-last=Bonolis |year=2001 |title=Enrico Fermi: His Work and Legacy |location=Bologna |publisher=Società Italiana di Fisica: Springer |isbn=88-7438-015-1  |oclc=56686431 |ref=harv }}
* {{cite book |last=Seaborg |first=Glenn T. |authorlink=Glenn T. Seaborg |editor-last=Seaborg |editor-first=Glenn T  |pages= 1–3 |contribution=Introductory Remarks |editor-link=Glenn T. Seaborg |url=http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/92g2p7cd.pdf |title=Proceedings of the Symposium Commemorating the 25th Anniversary of Elements 99 and 100 |date= 23 January 1978 |publisher=[[Los Alamos National Laboratory]] |location=Los Alamos |id=Report LBL-7701 |ref=harv }}
* {{cite book |last=Segrè |first=Emilio |authorlink=Emilio Segrè |title=Enrico Fermi, Physicist |year=1970 |publisher=University of Chicago Press |location=Chicago |isbn=0-226-74473-6 |oclc=118467 |ref=harv }}
* {{cite book |last=Snow |first=C. P. |authorlink=C. P. Snow |year=1981 |title=The Physicists: A Generation that Changed the World |publisher=Little Brown |location=Boston |isbn=1-84232-436-5 |oclc=7722354 |ref=harv }}
* {{cite book |last=Von Baeyer |first=H. C. |title=The Fermi Solution: Essays on Science |location=New York |publisher=Random House |year=1993 |isbn=0-679-40031-1 |oclc=27266040 |ref=harv }}
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==External links==
* [http://www.osti.gov/cgi-bin/rd_accomplishments/display_biblio.cgi?id=ACC0044&numPages=51&fp=N "The First Reactor: 40th Anniversary Commemorative Edition"], [[United States Department of Energy]], (December 1982).
* [http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1938/ Nobel prize page for the 1938 physics' prize]
* [http://www.atomicarchive.com/History/firstpile/index.shtml The Story of the First Pile]
* [http://www.fi.edu/learn/case-files/fermi/ Enrico Fermi's Case File] at The Franklin Institute with information about his contributions to theoretical and experimental physics.
* [http://www.aps.org/units/fhp/meetings/april10/j1.cfm "Remembering Enrico Fermi"]. Session J1. APS April Meeting 2010, American Physical Society.
* [http://www.time.com/time/time100/scientist/profile/fermi.html Time 100: Enrico Fermi] by [[Richard Rhodes]] 29 March 1999
 
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June 20, 2013 - Taking care of your body is one of the most essential things you can do to keep up a high quality of life. However, it is extremely hard sometimes to understand how to stay in good shape. There's so much details about getting into shape that's becomes complicated to determine what works best. Keep reading for some great ideas to help you get and stay fit.

Make certain that you're wearing the correct of shoes to your exercise. Wearing inappropriate shoes can cause injury. Use jogging shoes for running, squash shoes for squash and dancing shoes for dancing. Also, you should have tired feet after you work out, and you may not be able to take action as long.

To help reshape the body and build muscle you need to do resistance training. Strength training helps rev up your metabolism, with more muscle mass, you'll be able to burn more calories, even sleeping. Try to get at least A day of rest for each and every part of your system before you engage in physical activity again.

When you start running, it is critical to run in three separate segments or Cassette Player Adapter. Start slowly, then gradually increase your speed for your normal pace. Over the last section, try to run as fast as you can. This interval running style increases endurance levels, quickly allowing for longer runs any time you exercise.

Carefully examine any workout bench that you are considering before buying. You should press your thumb to the bench seat to try the padding that the bench is made of. If you are able to the touch the hard surface under it, head to another bench.

Leg extensions are a fantastic exercise to your quadriceps. Leg extension exercises are a great way to workout your legs. You will find that they are fun and straightforward enough for almost anyone. While sitting you simply lift the weights by extending your legs.

For those who feel guilty about watching television, here is a tip that may allow anyone to exercise while still catching a common shows. Spending the disposable time during commercials for exercise allows you to reach their fitness goals while still enjoying their preferred way of entertainment.

One good tip concerning tennis players is you can train the eyes in order to focus better. Move closer to the net than you typically do if you play and you may force your eyes to react quicker each time your opponent hits the particular ball. You'll be able to react faster as well.

In case you are injured one limb, continue training using the opposite. Arms and legs are independent of each other. If your are injured, keep working another and you will be able to keep your fitness level through the injury. The explanation for this is that fact that the muscles of both arms are connected.

When you're trying to take up a fitness routine, try walking your dog. Your dog loves walks then there is little chance he can not want to become listed on you daily. Start off simple. You could start by walking less than one block, and build on that over time. Isn't owning a dog had fitness benefits?

Work out at your house. There are a lot of things you can do in your own home like push-ups, lunges, pull-ups, and squats. Try lifting some dumbells when you are working out or even some resistance bands. It is possible to run around your neighborhood or jump rope to complete cardio exercises.

If you happen to injure one of the arms or legs, don't stop training session. Keep up with your exercises using the other uninjured limb even though the injury heals. By continuing with exercises, you will be able to sustain the effectiveness of the muscles within your healthy arm or leg, and also promote healing from the injured limb. This helps maintain muscle tissue and improve recovery.

Exercising can often be difficult when you have an extremely busy schedule. Do two shorter workouts instead of one long one. You don't need to increase the overall amount of time spent exercising, just split a regular training session into two smaller halves. You are able to jog for half an hour when you get up and thirty minutes when you get home from work rather than running one complete hour. If you appreciate not to go to your gym over and over again in a day, you can look at doing one workout your gym, and doing one workout outdoors.

Improve the fitness of your eyes once you play tennis. A method to do this would be to set up closer to the court net while practicing. You'll then be forced to focus and react quicker. This can also improve reaction times.

Fitness doesn't need to be a pain. Regardless of how busy your schedule is, the strategies you just read should fit right into it. It takes a good deal of work to stay in prime condition and atop your physical peak. Keep these ideas at heart if you want to conserve a proper level of fitness. co-contributed by Theo Q. Chance

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