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Fermi
Enrico . 1901--54, Italian nuclear physicist, in the US from 1939. He was awarded a Nobel prize for physics in 1938 for his work on radioactive substances and nuclear bombardment and headed the group that produced the first controlled nuclear reaction (1942)

fermi [′ferĀ·mē]
(mechanics)


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Physicists at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Ill.
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