Being known as “The Father of the Atomic Bomb” is a great accomplishment. To have this association as well as being known as “The Pope,” “The Prophet,” and “The Admiral” to his associates, an individual must be intelligent and have a background that allowed them to grow and prosper in physics (Latil 113). The man with this honor is Enrico Fermi and without him, who knows what would have happened in World War II. Enrico Fermi had multiple experiences and obstacles in his life, but all of the experiences and obstacles, from childhood to adulthood in Italy and America, allowed him to successfully advance theoretical physics to another level that no other Italian physicist would have been able to accomplish.
Enrico Fermi was the youngest of three children born in 1901 on September 29 in Rome, Italy (Lichello 5). He was born to Alberto Fermi and Ida de Gattis and had a sister Maria and …show more content…
When he was there, he was reunited with his friend Franco Rasetti in which they spent their time on the famous Arcetri hill trying to catch lizards to be dropped on country girls. When he spent his time on the hill, he solved a great physics problem for the first time which was the theoretical hypothesis of a “perfect” gas that would be composed of independent atoms. In 1926, he published a paper on “The Quantivalence of a Perfect Mono-atomic Gas”, in which stated his contribution that atoms do not have the same energies as one another. It is also known as the “Fermi-Dirac statistic” (Latil 29-31). It later became known as “Fermi statistics which governed the particles subject to Pauli’s exclusion principle (“Enrico Fermi” Atomic Heritage Foundation). Then in 1927, Fermi applied his method to the electrons that revolved around the nucleus which created a simple model of the atom and allowed atomic properties to be taken into account (Latil
Enrico Fermi was the youngest of three children born in 1901 on September 29 in Rome, Italy (Lichello 5). He was born to Alberto Fermi and Ida de Gattis and had a sister Maria and …show more content…
When he was there, he was reunited with his friend Franco Rasetti in which they spent their time on the famous Arcetri hill trying to catch lizards to be dropped on country girls. When he spent his time on the hill, he solved a great physics problem for the first time which was the theoretical hypothesis of a “perfect” gas that would be composed of independent atoms. In 1926, he published a paper on “The Quantivalence of a Perfect Mono-atomic Gas”, in which stated his contribution that atoms do not have the same energies as one another. It is also known as the “Fermi-Dirac statistic” (Latil 29-31). It later became known as “Fermi statistics which governed the particles subject to Pauli’s exclusion principle (“Enrico Fermi” Atomic Heritage Foundation). Then in 1927, Fermi applied his method to the electrons that revolved around the nucleus which created a simple model of the atom and allowed atomic properties to be taken into account (Latil