Enrico Fermi
1901 to 1954
10 documented presences
10 places
Quo Fuit places 10 dated presences for Enrico Fermi across 10 places, from 1901 to 1944. Each one keeps the sentence it was taken from and a link to its source.
Enrico Fermi (29 September 1901 – 28 November 1954) was an Italian–American physicist, renowned for being the creator of the world's first artificial nuclear reactor, the Chicago Pile-1, and a member of the Manhattan Project.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
Where Enrico Fermi was documented, and when
29 September 1901exact date
Romeattested
“Enrico Fermi was born on 29 September 1901 in Rome, Italy, the third child of Alberto Fermi, a division head in the Ministry of Railways, and Ida de Gattis, an elementary school teacher.”
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1923 to 1924period
University of Göttingenattested
“"It does not seem possible, at least in the near future", he wrote, "to find a way to release these dreadful amounts of energy—which is all to the good because the first effect of an explosion of such a dreadful amount of energy would be…”
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December 1924month
Leidenattested
“Fermi then studied in Leiden with Paul Ehrenfest from September to December 1924 on a fellowship from the Rockefeller Foundation obtained through the intercession of the mathematician Vito Volterra.”
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December 1924month
Rockefeller Foundationattested
“Fermi then studied in Leiden with Paul Ehrenfest from September to December 1924 on a fellowship from the Rockefeller Foundation obtained through the intercession of the mathematician Vito Volterra.”
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January 1925month
University of Florenceattested
“From January 1925 to late 1926, Fermi taught mathematical physics and theoretical mechanics at the University of Florence, where he teamed up with Rasetti to conduct a series of experiments on the effects of magnetic fields on mercury va…”
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December 1938month
Italyattested
“After Fermi received the prize in Stockholm, he did not return home to Italy but rather continued to New York City with his family in December 1938, where they applied for permanent residency.”
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December 1938month
Stockholmattested
“After Fermi received the prize in Stockholm, he did not return home to Italy but rather continued to New York City with his family in December 1938, where they applied for permanent residency.”
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December 1938month
New York Cityattested
“After Fermi received the prize in Stockholm, he did not return home to Italy but rather continued to New York City with his family in December 1938, where they applied for permanent residency.”
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1944year
Project Yattested
“In mid-1944, Oppenheimer persuaded Fermi to join his Project Y at Los Alamos, New Mexico.”
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1944year
Los Alamos, New Mexicoattested
“In mid-1944, Oppenheimer persuaded Fermi to join his Project Y at Los Alamos, New Mexico.”
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Places Enrico Fermi is documented in
Italy1 presence · 1938Leiden1 presence · 1924New York City1 presence · 1938Rockefeller Foundation1 presence · 1924Rome1 presence · 1901Stockholm1 presence · 1938University of Göttingen1 presence · 1923
Los Alamos, New Mexico1 presence · 1944
Project Y1 presence · 1944
University of Florence1 presence · 1925
Other places tied to Enrico Fermi in the record
In each of these, a source puts Enrico Fermi and the place in the same dated sentence without stating that Enrico Fermi was there. They are kept apart from the timeline above for exactly that reason: a mention is not a presence, and Quo Fuit does not quietly promote one into the other.
1915year
TWA Flight 891mentioned
“Giulio died during an operation on a throat abscess in 1915 and Maria died in an airplane crash near Milan in 1959.”
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1915year
Milanmentioned
“Giulio died during an operation on a throat abscess in 1915 and Maria died in an airplane crash near Milan in 1959.”
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1926year
Sapienza University of Romementioned
“In 1926, at the age of 24, he applied for a professorship at the Sapienza University of Rome.”
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1932year
Romementioned
“The most notable of these was the German physicist Hans Bethe, who came to Rome as a Rockefeller Foundation fellow, and collaborated with Fermi on a 1932 paper "On the Interaction between Two Electrons" ().”
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1936year
Columbia Universitymentioned
“He was immediately offered positions at five universities, and accepted one at Columbia University, where he had already given summer lectures in 1936.”
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2 January 1939exact date
New York Citymentioned
“Fermi arrived in New York City on 2 January 1939.”
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August 1941month
Schermerhorn Hallmentioned
“By August 1941, he had six tons of uranium oxide and thirty tons of graphite, which he used to build a still larger pile in Schermerhorn Hall at Columbia.”
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4 November 1943exact date
Oak Ridge National Laboratorymentioned
“When the air-cooled X-10 Graphite Reactor at Oak Ridge went critical on 4 November 1943, Fermi was on hand just in case something went wrong.”
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July 1944month
B Reactormentioned
“Fermi became an American citizen in July 1944, the earliest date the law allowed.In September 1944, Fermi inserted the first uranium fuel slug into the B Reactor at the Hanford Site, the production reactor designed to breed plutonium in…”
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July 1944month
Hanford Sitementioned
“Fermi became an American citizen in July 1944, the earliest date the law allowed.In September 1944, Fermi inserted the first uranium fuel slug into the B Reactor at the Hanford Site, the production reactor designed to breed plutonium in…”
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1 July 1945exact date
University of Chicagomentioned
“Swift Distinguished Professor of Physics at the University of Chicago on 1 July 1945, although he did not depart the Los Alamos Laboratory with his family until 31 December 1945.”
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October 1954month
Billings Memorial Hospitalmentioned
“He said: Fermi underwent what was called an "exploratory" operation in Billings Memorial Hospital in October 1954, after which he returned home.”
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Documented at the same place, the same year
Jan OortLeiden · 1924Albert EinsteinGöttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony · 1923Max BornGöttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony · 1923Amedeo ModiglianiRome · 1901Gaetano BresciRome · 1901James ChadwickProject Y · 1944Luis Walter AlvarezProject Y · 1944Pope Pius XIRome · 1938Emilio SegrèRome · 1938Ivan MaiskyRome · 1938Gloria SwansonNew York City · 1938Leo StraussNew York City · 1938
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How to read this page
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