What is Fermilab what is Fermilab main page | mission | history | Enrico Fermi Enrico Fermi Biography Enrico Fermi was born in Rome, Italy, on September 29, 1901. He died November 28, 1954. The son of a railroad official, he studied at the University of Pisa from 1918 to 1922 and later at the universities of Leyden and Gottingen. He became professor of theoretical physics at the University of ...

Information about Fermi's contributions to physics, involving the creation of a controlled nuclear reaction in 1942.