enrico fermi

1. 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)

   SynonymsFermi

   Broadernuclear physicist

Questions about enrico fermi

What does enrico fermi mean?

enrico fermi means "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)".

What is another word for enrico fermi?

Close synonyms include Fermi. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is enrico fermi a common word?

enrico fermi is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.