1966 Event Partial meltdown at Detroits's Fermi 1 nuclear reactor 1954 Death Enrico Fermi, Italian/US nuclear physicist, dies 1954 Death Enrico Fermi, Italian/U.S. physicist (Nobel 1938), dies at 53 1942 Event 1st controlled nuclear chain reaction Enrico Fermi - University of Chicago 1901 Birthday Enrico Fermi, born in Rome, U.S. physicist, gone fission/fermium, Nobel-1938
