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Fermi, Enrico
(b.
Enrico fermi biography pdf directory
Rome, Italy, 29 September 1901; d. Chicago, Illinois, 28 November 1954)
physics.
His father, Alberto Fermi, was an administrative employee of the Italian railroads; his mother, Ida de Gattis, was a schoolteacher.
Fermi received a traditional education in the public schools of Rome, but his scientific formation was due more to the books he read than to personal contacts. It is possible to gather exact information on his readings from an extant notebook, and later in life he mentioned having studied such works as Poisson’s Traité de mécanique, Richardson’s Electron Theory of Matter, Planck’s Vorlesungen über Thermodynamik, and several by Poincaré.
Fermi was fundamentally an agnostic, although he had been baptized a Catholic.
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In 1928 he married Laura Capon, the daughter of an admiral in the Italian navy. His wife’s family was Jewish and was severely persecuted during the Nazi-Fascist period. Fermi, who enjoyed excellent health until his fatal illness,