On September 29, 1901, the world was blessed with a prodigy, who by his unparalleled works carved a niche for himself in the realm of Physics. Enrico Fermi, a supremely self-assured Italian-American was born in Rome, Italy, in the Fermi family. Fermi, one of the chief architects of the Nuclear Age, who developed Mathematical Statistics named Fermi-Dirac Statistics, and discovered neutron induced radioactivity and directed the first controlled chain reaction involving nuclear fission. In 1938, the great scientist was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his contribution to this field. A coded message told the government of his success : "The Italian navigator has just landed in the New World."

Fermi’s sheer commitment to Physics was instrumental in unraveling quite a few mysteries of science. His work exemplifies that man, who is but a mortal being, can immortalize himself through his works.