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Enrico Fermi invented nuclear reactor. He is known as the father of nuclear physics. He discovered the chain reactions.

Fermi was born on September 26, 1901 in Rome. He obtained his PhD degree in the field of X-rays. He made research and discovered that when the element is bombarded by a slow moving neutron, it becomes radio active and starts emitting radiations.

In this process one element changes into the other element. He also discovered that a fundamental particle named neutrino and produced 80 new artificial nuclei by neutron bombardment.

He succeeded in splitting the uranium nuclei by the bombardment of neutrons. He had worked on the controlled chain reactions.

After several years of arduous research and hard work he designed the nuclear reactor in Chicago. In this reactor he generated the energy by nuclear fission.