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Born September 29, 1901 • Rome • Italy
Died November 28, 1954 (aged 53) • Chicago • Illinois
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (1938)
Subjects Of Study Fermi-Dirac statistics • Fermi level • Fermi surface • nuclear chain reaction • quantum • radioactivity • slow neutron • subatomic particle
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