The man who tried to fake an element

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Enrico Fermi may just be the luckiest man to ever win a Nobel prize. Fermi is Italy’s top physicist. At the age of just 24 he had been made a professor at the University of Rome, and thanks to his commanding presence his researchers had nicknamed him the Pope. Unlike the Pope though, he was broke. Italy’s dominance in science had long fallen off si... Read More