[1] Baptized as a Catholic (as were his siblings) in deference to his grandparents. Fermi himself was not particularly religious, and might be considered agnostic. His wife, Laura Capon, was Jewish. Upon the passage of racial laws on 9 November 1938 (including deprivation of citizenship), Fermi and his wife took a "vacation" to the United States with no intention of returning. See Emilio Segre, Enrico Fermi: Physicist (1995), page 5.
Father: Alberto Fermi
Mother: Ida de Galtis
Sister: Maria (b. 1899)
Brother: Giulio (b. 1900)
Wife: Laura Capon (m. 1928, one son, one daughter)
Son: Giulio Fermi
Daughter: Nella Fermi
University: PhD Physics, University of Pisa (1922)
American Philosophical Society 1939
Royal Society of Edinburgh Fellow (1949)
Nobel Prize for Physics 1938
Matteucci Medal 1926
Hughes Medal 1942
National Inventors Hall of Fame
Rumford Prize 1953
Naturalized US Citizen 1944
Asteroid Namesake 8103 Fermi
Chemical Element Namesake fermium (Fm, 100)
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