One of the scientists working on the U.S. Manhattan Project, used the Italian physicist Enrico Fermi (1901-1954), the radium and beryllium copper dust to build a neutron source for the production of new radioactive materials. Fermi and his colleagues were able to produce radioisotopes of sodium, iron, copper, gold and many other items. Because of Fermi's work, for which he awarded the Nobel Prize
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