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Enrico Fermi

1901 - 1954

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Enrico Fermi (Italian: [enˈriːko ˈfermi]; 29 September 1901 – 28 November 1954) was an Italian and naturalized American physicist, renowned for being the creator of the world's first artificial nuclear reactor, the Chicago Pile-1, and a member of the Manhattan Project. He has been called the "architect of the nuclear age" and the "architect of the atomic bomb". He was one of very few physicists to excel in both theoretical physics and experimental physics. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Enrico Fermi has received more than 4,789,288 page views. His biography is available in 141 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 134 in 2019). Enrico Fermi is the 19th most popular physicist (up from 23rd in 2019), the 57th most popular biography from Italy (up from 93rd in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Italian Physicist.

Enrico Fermi is most famous for the invention of the first nuclear reactor.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Enrico Fermi ranks 19 out of 851. Before him are James Prescott Joule, Robert Hooke, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Werner Heisenberg, Evangelista Torricelli, and Henri Becquerel. After him are André-Marie Ampère, Erwin Schrödinger, Georg Ohm, Christiaan Huygens, Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, and James Clerk Maxwell.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1901, Enrico Fermi ranks 5. Before him are Hirohito, Walt Disney, Werner Heisenberg, and Marlene Dietrich. After him are Leopold III of Belgium, Louis Armstrong, Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia, Jacques Lacan, Sukarno, Fulgencio Batista, and Ngo Dinh Diem. Among people deceased in 1954, Enrico Fermi ranks 4. Before him are Frida Kahlo, Henri Matisse, and Alan Turing. After him are Heinz Guderian, Robert Capa, Princess Märtha of Sweden, Colette, Getúlio Vargas, Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist, Alcide De Gasperi, and André Derain.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Enrico Fermi ranks 57 out of 5,161. Before him are Pope Leo XIII (1810), Giacomo Casanova (1725), Pope Clement VII (1478), Pope Gregory I (540), Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598), and Lucretius (-94). After him are Saint Lucy (283), Umberto Eco (1932), Pope Pius XII (1876), Saint Valentine (226), Guglielmo Marconi (1874), and Ötzi (-3345).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Italy

Among physicists born in Italy, Enrico Fermi ranks 3. Before him are Alessandro Volta (1745), and Evangelista Torricelli (1608). After him are Luigi Galvani (1737), Laura Bassi (1711), Emilio Segrè (1905), Francesco Maria Grimaldi (1618), Carlo Rubbia (1934), Ettore Majorana (1906), Giovanni Battista Venturi (1746), Giorgio Parisi (1948), and Bruno Pontecorvo (1913).

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