NOTABLE GRAVESITES: ENRICO FERMI - ARCHITECT OF THE NUCLEAR AGE

Hey you all, Sean Cody Welcome back Today, I'm still at Oakwood Cemetery. I just left my infamous grave site Location I came over to another one. So I figured I'd get at least another one Maybe I'll get another one before I leave out here See how many I can get before I before I have to get out of here Right now I'm at the grave site of Enrico Fermi Enrico Fermi was born in Rome, Italy on September 29th 1901. He was the third child of Alberto and Ida Fermi Fermi's intense interest in physics was said to be a result of a family tragedy when Enrico was 14 his beloved brother Giulio died suddenly and Fermi was devastated To console him his parents encouraged his studies He came across a couple of physics books written a half century earlier, and he was totally enthralled In 1918 Fermi won a scholarship to the prestigious Scuola Normale Superiore University in Spisa, Italy. I know I probably destroyed that name, but please forgive me His essay entry was so impressive that Fermi was quickly elevated to the doctoral program and he graduated with honors in 1922 In 1923, he won a Rockefeller Fellowship Spent several months with renowned physicist professor Max Born in Göttingen, Germany in 1924 Fermi returned to Italy for two years to work as lecturer of mathematical physics and mechanics at the University of Florence In 1926 Fermi discovered the statistical laws nowadays known as the Fermi statistics governing the particles subject to Pauli's exclusion principle Which are particles now known as fermions and bosons and Kind of stuff that we're not going to dig too deep into in this video In 1927 Fermi was elected professor of theoretical physics at the University of Rome In 1928 he married Laura Capon, the daughter of a respected Jewish family in Rome They had one son Giulio and a daughter named Nella In 1934 Fermi began his most important work with the atom Discovering that nuclear transformation could occur in nearly every element One of the elements atoms he split was uranium This work led to the discovery of slowing down neutrons Which led to nuclear fission and the production of new elements beyond the traditional periodic table In 1938 Fermi was awarded the Nobel Prize in physics for his work with artificial radioactivity produced by neutrons and for nuclear reactions brought about by slow neutrons The honor was a lifesaver for the Fermi family as Italy at this time was becoming very fascist under Mussolini's dictatorship, and they had just instituted some anti-Jewish laws The award ceremony was in Stockholm, Sweden Which gave the family an opportunity to escape Italy and emigrate to America Safely in the United States in 1939 Fermi was appointed professor of physics at New York's Columbia University While there Fermi discovered that if uranium neutrons were emitted into fissioning uranium They could split other uranium atoms setting off a chain reaction that would release enormous amounts of energy His experiments led to the first controlled nuclear chain reaction in Chicago on December 2nd 1942 under the stands of University of Chicago's Stagg field During World War two Fermi became one of the principal leaders on the Manhattan Project Which focused on development of the atomic bomb? To further his commitment to his new country Fermi and his wife became American citizens in 1944 After the detonation of the first Soviet fission bomb in August of 1949 Fermi co-authored a report condemning the development of a hydrogen bomb on moral and technical grounds Nonetheless then president Harry S Truman ordered the development of the bomb ignoring Fermi's and others warnings Fermi returned to Los Alamos, New Mexico To help with the calculations hoping to prove that making a super bomb wasn't possible Fermi continued his work at the Institute for Nuclear Studies at the University of Chicago Where he turned his attention to the high-energy physics and led investigations into the origins of cosmic rays and theories on the fantastic energies present in cosmic ray particles by 1954 Fermi was diagnosed with incurable stomach cancer and spent the remaining months of his life in Chicago undergoing various medical procedures He died in his sleep on November 28th, 1954 at his home in Chicago, Illinois As we're here in our final respects to a brilliant physicist Without his contributions We don't know where we'd be in technology wise especially in the nuclear era so Thank You. Mr. Fermi it was a Great to come and visit your gravesite So that's cool Hope you enjoyed this Visit to Enrico Fermi's grave site. I stay this way. So I'm in the Sun So you don't just get my shadow on the face but Thank you once again for watching I Appreciate each and every one of you Please like share and subscribe Hey, we're working hard towards that goal of getting out 1000 subscribers Got the watch got the watchers. My watch hours are right there. We're only 600 more to 4,000 400 more subscribers to get a little under 400 more subscribers, but approximately 400 more subscribers to get to that Appreciate each and every one of you guys. Love you all See you guys in my next video. So long Drive it to this cemetery Appears to be a Jewish cemetery Backed in tight here And I noticed the signs over here. I was going to get out and take a look but then I noticed that it says I don't see no trespassing signs or anything like that. So There's no sign Think I'll pull over take a quick look through here Wow So, yeah, this is I caught me I'm really quick because they're all packed together and I was just like Wow, is this storage or? Building This cemetery is well, I see 57 Yeah, definitely Jewish I see a lot of Jewish names Hebrew writing star of David Now this would definitely be creepy at night All there's even room to this is definitely very interesting and it's Over back there Okay, we just I gotta go take a quick look at this over here I don't Get it. There is like I'm blown away. I just don't know what to say anything like this So I want to go back there. I see a walkway over there too, but I don't see any way of getting to it larger opening here Trying that See there's a gate there I keep going this way too Family Wow There's a lot of obelisks in this cemetery a lot of tombstones. I've never seen before either a lot of Different styles. There's that one at the arch go That's impressive And it's like When one starts falling Together They start toppling like dominoes Fell over here That one looks like it was an archway there too Has like one of those archway type things Pillars there right there and there you can kind of see the curved shape So that fell down. Oh I have to say as well very impressive and Inside if you're here at night extremely creepy Because even today It has a creepy vibe It's two of the iron fences Not all here Wow, I'm just You guys around I'm just blown away at this This is a Impressive sign I guess I'm gonna go Out this way get back to the car that way instead of trying to cut through all the graves Yeah, that's Definitely the creep factor is high in there and I just don't know I don't get a finer and so close together. I've never seen Photos and pictures of other places that but I've never seen that in, Illinois So that was cool once again guys, thank you for watching. Have a good day everyone so long