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- Born on Semptember 29, 1901, in Rome, Italy. - In 1918, he won a fellowship of the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa. - In 1922 he spent four years at the University of Pisa, gaining his doctor's degree in physics. - In 1926, Fermi discovered the statistical laws, nowadays known as the Fermi statistics. - In 1938 he won the nobel prize - As soon as he won it he immigrated to America to escape dictatorship - Fermi was without doubt the greatest expert on neutrons - He subsequently played an important part in solving the problems connected with the development of the first atomic bomb - In 1944, Fermi became a american citizen, and at the end of the war in 1946 he accepted a professorship at the Institute for Nuclear Studies of the University of Chicago, a position which he held until his untimely death in 1954