The Institute for Nuclear Studies was founded September, 1945 as part of the University of Chicago with Samuel King Allison as director. On November 20, 1955 it was renamed The Enrico Fermi Institute for Nuclear Studies. The name was shortened to The Enrico Fermi Institute in January 1968.
The EFI and JFI, founded in 1945 as the Institute for NuclearStudies and the Institute for the Study of Metals, respectively, are two of the oldest academic centers for interdisciplinary research in the world.
In nuclear physics, it was at the Enrico FermiInstitute that Maria Goeppert Mayer developed the nuclear shell model, the work for which she won the Nobel Prize in 1963.
Founded in 1995, the Institute is dedicated to educating the public about crucial aspects of nuclear history.
As part of its mission, the Institute is participating in the Nuclear Education Project, which is a worldwide effort to improve access to teaching and learning materials regarding the history of the nuclear arms race, from the dropping of nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki to current efforts to curb the spread of nuclear weapons.
We will be posting a variety of materials pertaining to the development and effects of nuclear weaponry, including information about the devastation wrought by past use of nuclear weapons.
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