The Italian physicist, inventor, and academic naturalized American Enrico Fermi!

Born in Rome, Italy in 1901, Fermi is best known for his work in nuclear physics. Fermi was the creator of the world's first nuclear reactor, the Chicago Pile-1 while he was working on the Manhattan Project during WWII. He has been called the "architect of the nuclear age" and the "architect of the atomic bomb."
In 1938, he received the Nobel Prize for physics, for "the identification of new elements of radioactivity and the discovery of nuclear reactions by slow neutrons." In fact, to honor Fermi's research, an element on the periodic table was named after him: fermio (symbol Fm)!

We proudly recognize the technological advancements that stem from this global Italian diaspora.