History: Fermium was named after a man named Enrico Fermi (1901-1954), an Italian-born American physicist; he designed the first atomic pile and produced the first nuclear chain reaction in 1942. He won the Nobel Prize in 1938 for physics for his work on nuclear processes and radioactivity. Fermi began bombarding, many chemical elements with neutrons in 1934. Enrico Fermi and his team first discovered fermium (1952) in the first hydrogen bomb explosion, a nuclear weapon design originally called Teller- Ulam design.

Enrico Fermi: Enrico Fermi was born in Rome Italy on September 29, 190. His father, Alberto Fermi was a Chief Inspector of the Ministry of Communications. His mother, Ida de Gattis. Fermi and his brother, Giulio enjoyed spending their time learning physics and math, but unfortunately, Giulio died unexpectedly of a throat abscess in 1915. Fermi went into scientific study to distract himself from his brother's death and became injured of pain, until one day he befriended another scientist, Enrico Persico, and they worked together in scientific projects such as measuring the magnetic field of the earth.
Later on, Enrico Fermi spent a semester in Gottingen in 1924 as Luigi Puccianti as Fermi's Ph.D advisor. In 1926 he stayed at the University of Florence. When he turned 24 years old, Fermi became a professor in Rome and he remained there until 1938 when he won the Nobel Prize on radioactivity and then he, his wife; Laura Capon, and his children; Giulio Fermi (1936-1997) and a daughter Nella Fermi Weiner (1931-1995) emigrated to New York and Fermi began working at Columbia University.
            Fermi's greatest trait is modesty and to do any kind of work that made him popular and well liked among people from the Nobel Laureates to Technicians. Fermi served a short time on the general Advisory Committee of the atomic Energy Commission, which was a science committee by Robert Oppenheimer who advised the commission on nuclear policies. Fermi was known as an inspiring teacher at the University of Chicago and then at the age of 53, Fermi died of stomach cancer and two graduate students who assisted him also died of the same cancer.