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Definition of Enrico Fermi
1. Noun. Italian nuclear physicist (in the United States after 1939) who worked on artificial radioactivity caused by neutron bombardment and who headed the group that in 1942 produced the first controlled nuclear reaction (1901-1954).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Enrico Fermi
Literary usage of Enrico Fermi
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1883)
"Enrico Fermi, Physicist. EMILIO SEGRE. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1970.
xii, 276 pp. + plates. $6.95. The title of this book is singularly ..."
2. Proceedings of the Workshop on Pyrochemical Separations: Avignon, France, 14 by European Commission, OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (2001)
"Sergey A. KUZNETSOV IUSTI Technopole Château-Gombert, 5 5 rue Enrico Fermi F-13453
MARSEILLE Cedex 13 Mr. Jérôme LACQUEMENT CEA Marcoule BP 171 F-30207 ..."
3. The Manhattan Project: Making the Atomic Bomb by F. G. Gosling (1999)
"Beginning in 1934, the Italian physicist Enrico Fermi began bombarding elements
with neutrons instead of protons, theorizing that Chad- wick's uncharged ..."
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