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One of the most important scientists studying the nuclear fission of heavy atoms was Enrico Fermi. Fermi was a physicist who won the Nobel Prize in 1938 for identifying new elements and discovering nuclear reaction through his use of nuclear irradiation and bombardment. Fermi was Italian, born in Rome on September 29, 1901. He died in Chicago, Illinois, on November 28, 1954.
Fermi had been interested in mathematics and experimental physics even when he was a boy in Rome. His interests did not change, and he received his doctoral degree from the University of Florence in 1924. Then from 1927 to 1938, he was a professor of physics at the University of Rome.
Leaving Italy in 1938, Fermi accepted a professorship at Columbia University. At that time the Fascists were in power in Italy, and the persecution of Jews was becoming intense. Because Mrs. Fermi was Jewish and because of the atmosphere in Italy, the Fermis decided to leave.
Fermi's next position was at the University of Chicago, where he worked on nuclear chain reactions and developed the first nuclear reactor.
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