Argonne Nobelists
NOBELIST – Argonne scientist Alexei Abrikosov
shared the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physics for theories about how matter can
show bizarre behavior at extremely low temperatures.
NOBELIST – Argonne scientist Maria Goeppert
Mayer shared the 1963 Nobel Prize in physics for her research
on the shell model of the atomic nucleus.
NOBELIST– Enrico Fermi was the first director of the "Argonne Lab,"
which grew into Argonne National Laboratory. In 1938,
Fermi won the Nobel Prize in Physics for his "demonstrations
of the existence of new radioactive elements produced
by neutron irradiation, and for his related discovery
of nuclear reactions brought about by slow neutrons."
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