Enrico Fermi was born #OTD in 1901.

He is renowned for being the creator of the world's first nuclear reactor, the Chicago Pile-1, and a member of the Manhattan Project.

He was one of very few physicists to excel in both theoretical physics and experimental physics. Fermi was awarded the 1938 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on induced radioactivity by neutron bombardment and for the discovery of transuranium elements. via @b32610c7 

#science #physics

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 @b43cfc26 @b32610c7 For me, the coolest story about him is how he took Pile-1 critical, watching the gauges, and doing calculations on a *6" sliderule*, and giving instructions. There was a team of people calculating as well, but they were 10 minutes behind - a long time for a critical nuclear reactor!