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       Enrico Fermi was an Italian physicist. Born in Rome on September 29th, 1901, Enrico was born into a well - to - do  family. His mother was a teacher, and his father was a chief inspector of the Ministry of Communications.  In 1918, teenage Enrico Fermi attended the Scuola Normale Superiore University in Pisa, Italy on a scholarship. He was soon enrolled into the doctoral program and graduated with honors in 1922. In 1923, he studied under professor Max Born in Germany on a Rockefeller Fellowship and then under Paul Ehrenfest. Five years later, Fermi began working as a physics professor at the University of Rome. 

       In 1934, Fermi began working with the atom, leading to the discoveries of slowing down neutrons, nuclear transformation in elements, and nuclear fission. In 1938, Enrico Fermi won the Nobel Prize in physics. Fermi taught physics at Columbia University from 1939 - 1942, and through his experiments came the conduction of the world's first controlled nuclear chain reaction. Enrico Fermi worked on the Manhattan Project, and helped create both the atomic and hydrogen bombs. With all his contributions to the world of science, he is famous for his work on neutrons, and became well known for his work solving outlandish questions known as "Fermi questions".