1901 – Fermi – bio
Enrico Fermi was born in Rome, Italy in 1901 and was known as a physicist who helped to create the first nuclear reactor. He worked on the project known as “Chicago Pile-1” which created the first controlled nuclear fission reaction. Subatomic particles that follow Fermi-Dirac statistics are called “fermions” in his honor. At Los Alamos, he directed a division that worked on the hydrogen or fusion bomb. The element Fermium was named after him.
PRECURSOR:
1571 – Kepler
1745 – Volta
1768 – Fourier
1831 – Maxwell
1845 – Rontgen
1853 – Ricci-Curbastro
1858 – Planck
1871 – Rutherford
1873 – Levi-Civita
CONCURRENT:
1879 – Einstein
1882 – Born
1885 – Bohr
1887 – Schrodinger
1891 – Chadwick
1892 – Compton
1898 – Szilard
1900 – Pauli
1901 – Heisenberg
1901 – Lawrence
1902 – Dirac
1902 – Jordan
1902 – Wigner
1903 – von Neumann
1904 – Oppenheimer
1906 – Mayer
1908 – Teller
1909 – Ulam
1918 – Feynman
1919 – Woods
1922 – Bohr
1929 – Gell-Mann
1937 – Zweig
