enrico fermi

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enrico fermi - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  Enrico Fermi
      n 1: Italian nuclear physicist (in the United States after 1939)
           who worked on artificial radioactivity caused by neutron
           bombardment and who headed the group that in 1942 produced
           the first controlled nuclear reaction (1901-1954) [syn:
           Fermi, Enrico Fermi]