[fur-mee; It. fer-mee] 
| En⋅ri⋅co [en-ree-koh; It. en-ree-kaw] , 1901–54, Italian physicist, in the U.S. after 1939: Nobel prize 1938. |
| Fer·mi (fěr'mē) Italian-born American physicist. He won a 1938 Nobel Prize for his work on artificial radioactivity caused by neutron bombardment. In 1942, at the University of Chicago, he produced the first controlled nuclear chain reaction. |
An American physicist of the twentieth century, born in Italy. Fermi built the first nuclear reactor in the 1940s under the stands of a football field at the University of Chicago.
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