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Enrico Fermi
Enrico Fermi was an Italian physicist who built the first nuclear reactor. Working in Rome, he showed that slow neutrons could induce radioactivity and received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1938. Because his wife was Jewish and the Fascist racial laws threatened his family, he moved to the United States after the prize ceremony, where he led the team that achieved the first controlled nuclear chain reaction in Chicago in 1942.
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