Giornata della Memoria 2024 – Lise Meitner
The Enrico Fermi Historical Museum of Physics and Study and Research Center remembers a male or female scientist who has suffered discrimination or persecution due to their Jewish origins. This year, as part of the Manhattan Project Conferences, we dedicate this day to Lise Meitner. Born in Vienna in 1878, Lise Meitner moved to Berlin […]
John Elkann visited the Enrico Fermi Museum
Before Christmas, we had the pleasure of hosting John Elkann for an informal and private visit. After the greetings, Elkann and the President of the institution, Luciano Pietronero, had the opportunity to exchange some ideas on the role of science in today’s society and on how research institutions can contribute to the higher education of […]
Manhattan Project. A Story with many voices.
For the 2024 edition of our open conferences, we propose “Manhattan Project. A tale of many voices.” Throughout the conferences – from January to May – we will try to explain what the Manhattan Project was from a scientific and historical point of view, with its human and ethical implications. We will rely on the […]
On January 2, 1939 Enrico Fermi landed in New York
On January 2, 1939, Enrico Fermi landed in New York. He has just won the Nobel, but work difficulties and the racial laws threatening his wife Laura convinced him to leave. In the United States, there are already Albert Einstein and other European physicists of Jewish origin who managed to escape the Nazis. Among them […]
Rotary Club Eur Members visiting our Museum
On Wednesday, 12 October, we had the pleasure of hosting the Rotary Club of Rome EUR, an association founded in 1967.Past President Giuseppe Cirillo and ADMI President Saverio Coraggio organized the meeting. Rotary members were particularly interested in visiting our Historical Museum of Physics, where they appreciated the renewed layout and multimedia installations. They were […]
Hélène Langevin-Joliot at the Museo Fermi
September 28th, on the eve of the European Night of Researchers, Hélène Langevin-Joliot visited the Enrico Fermi Museum.
The Enrico Fermi Museum at XLIII SISFA Congress
Historian of Physics Miriam Focaccia and Coordinator of EEE Project Marco Garbin gave a talk about the Enrico Fermi Museum at XLIII SISFA Congress in Padua, 5-8 September 2023
Caro Maestro. Due lettere inedite di Enrico Fermi
Il Museo Fermi ha recentemente ampliato la propria collezione grazie alla donazione di due lettere autografe del grande scienziato. Sono due lettere, datate rispettivamente 23 giugno 1947 e 24 luglio 1954, spedite, la prima da Chicago, la seconda da Como, al maestro elementare, Luigi Bianchini.
Pietro Blaserna: a creative environment for physics
After the unification of Italy, the ‘Rome Capital’ project supported by Quintino Sella envisaged, among other things, that Rome should not only be the capital of politics, but also of science.
The Fermi Museum joins the National Association of Science Museums
This year the Enrico Fermi Historical Museum of Physics becomes part of the National Association of Science Museums (ANMS)
