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Enrico Fermi was a versatile physicist contributing in equal measure to theory and experiments. He is credited to be the ‘Father of the Atomic Age’ following his successful demonstration of sustained chain reaction in Chicago Pile-1. In this article, I have discussed his major experimental contributions that clearly demonstrate his simplicity of conception, meticulous attention to detail and directness of approach to the problem at hand.
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Laura Fermi, Atoms in the Family — My Life with Enrico Fermi, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1954.
Emilio Segre, Enrico Fermi, Physicist, University of Chicago Press, 1970.
Jay Orear, Enrico Fermi: The Master Scientist, The Internet — First University Press, 2004.
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Amit Roy is currently Raja Ramanna Fellow at Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata after spending more than two decades each at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai and Inter-University Accelerator Centre, New Delhi.
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Roy, A. Enrico Fermi — The complete physicist. Reson 19, 684–703 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12045-014-0077-z
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