Fermi, Enrico (1901-1954)

American physicist born in Rome; researched the transmutation of elements through neutron bombardment; his team produced the first controlled nuclear chain reaction at the University of Chicago. He received the Nobel Prize for physics for the development of neutron-induced nuclear reactions in 1938.

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"Experimental confirmation of a prediction is merely a measurement. An experiment disproving a prediction is a discovery."