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The Nobel Prize in Physics 1938

"for his demonstrations of the existence of new radioactive elements produced by neutron irradiation, and for his related discovery of nuclear reactions brought about by slow neutrons"
Enrico Fermi
Enrico Fermi
Italy
Rome University
Rome, Italy
b. 1901
d. 1954
 
 
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