Quote of the day
What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
Enrico Fermi
Born: September 29, 1901
Died: November 28, 1954 (aged 53)
Bio: Enrico Fermi was an Italian physicist, who created the world's first nuclear reactor, the Chicago Pile-1. He has been called the "architect of the nuclear age", and the "architect of the atomic bomb".
Known for:
- Thermodynamics
- Elementary Particles (1951)
- Collected Papers