Enrico Fermi
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1 (of 4) At the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony at the Stockholm Concert Hall on 10 December 1938 only two Nobel Laureates were present: Enrico Fermi, Physics Laureate, and Pearl Buck, Literature Laureate.
Source: University of Pennsylvania. Photographer: Karl Sandels. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons
2 (of 4) Physicist Enrico Fermi pictured in the laboratory in 1934.
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3 (of 4) The three physics laureates Wolfgang Pauli, Werner Heisenberg and Enrico Fermi on a boat on Lake Como, Italy, in September 1927 .
Photo: CERN / © Franco Rasetti
4 (of 4) Ehrenfest's students, Leiden 1924. Left to right: Gerhard Heinrich Dieke, Samuel Abraham Goudsmit, Jan Tinbergen, Paul Ehrenfest, Ralph Kronig, and Enrico Fermi.
Source: Emilio Segrè Visual Archives Photographer unknown Public domain via Wikimedia Commons
Nobel Prizes and laureates
Six prizes were awarded for achievements that have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind. The 12 laureates' work and discoveries range from proteins' structures and machine learning to fighting for a world free of nuclear weapons.
See them all presented here.