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| name = Enrico Fermi<br />
| image = Enrico_Fermi.jpg<br />
| caption = Enrico Fermi<br />
| birth_date = 29 September 1901<br />
| birth_place = Rome, Kingdom of Italy<br />
| death_date = 28 November 1954<br />
| death_place = Chicago, Illinois, U.S.<br />
| fields = Physics<br />
| workplaces = University of Rome; Columbia University; University of Chicago<br />
| alma_mater = Scuola Normale Superiore<br />
| known_for = Fermi-Dirac statistics; beta decay theory; nuclear reactor; weak interaction studies<br />
| awards = Nobel Prize in Physics (1938)<br />
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'''Enrico Fermi''' (29 September 1901 - 28 November 1954) was an Italian-American physicist whose work shaped quantum statistics, nuclear physics, particle physics, and reactor physics. In quantum theory he is closely associated with Fermi-Dirac statistics, which describes particles with half-integer spin, now called fermions.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1938/fermi/biographical/ |title=Enrico Fermi - Biographical |publisher=Nobel Prize Outreach |access-date=20 May 2026}}</ref><br />
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Fermi combined theoretical insight with experimental skill. He developed a theory of beta decay, worked on neutron-induced radioactivity, and led the team that built the first controlled nuclear chain reaction. His name appears across modern physics, from fermions and the Fermi surface to Fermi's golden rule and Fermi energy.<br />
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== Quantum physics ==<br />
Fermi-Dirac statistics is fundamental for [[Physics:Quantum Matter Elements and Particles|fermionic matter]], atomic electron shells, metals, neutron stars, and many-body quantum systems. It complements Bose-Einstein statistics and follows from the antisymmetric behavior of identical fermions.<br />
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Fermi's theory of beta decay became an early model for the weak interaction and helped connect nuclear transitions with particle creation and annihilation ideas. His work therefore links [[Physics:Quantum Atomic structure and spectroscopy|atomic physics]], nuclear physics, and later [[Physics:Quantum Standard Model|Standard Model]] physics.<br />
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== See also ==<br />
* [[Physics:Quantum Matter Elements and Particles]]<br />
* [[Physics:Quantum Statistical mechanics]]<br />
* [[Physics:Quantum Fermi's golden rule]]<br />
* [[Biography:Wolfgang Pauli]]<br />
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