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Enrico Fermi: The Atomic Age's Quiet Architect Is Born

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CHICAGO
Fermi's landmark nuclear reactor, Chicago Pile-1, went critical on December 2, 1942, beneath the bleachers of Stagg Field at the University of Chicago.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
NOBEL
Fermi received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1938, using the award ceremony trip to Sweden as a departure point, he and his family never returned to Fascist Italy.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
FISSION
Fermi's mastery of neutron bombardment laid the experimental groundwork that led other scientists to the discovery of uranium fission in 1938.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
NEUTRON
Fermi discovered that slowing neutrons down, passing them through paraffin or water, made them far more effective at triggering nuclear reactions, a key insight of the 1930s.Find this word in the grid to read its note.

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About Enrico Fermi: The Atomic Age's Quiet Architect Is Born

On September 29, 1901, Enrico Fermi was born in Rome, Italy, beginning a life that would permanently alter the course of science. He possessed a rare gift for both theory and experiment, an almost unheard-of combination in physics, and by 1942 he had guided the team that achieved the world's first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction beneath the stands of a Chicago stadium. His 1938 Nobel Prize in Physics recognized his work on neutron-induced radioactivity, but history remembers him equally as the architect of the atomic age, a man whose calm precision unlocked energies once thought unreachable.

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