This photo is of physicist Enrico Fermi. The original name of the Fermilab was the National Accelerator Laboratory, but in April of 1969 the AEC chairman Glenn T. Seaborg announced that it would be renamed in honor of Enrico Fermi and from then on would be known as the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. Enrico Fermi was born in Rome on the 29th of September, 1901. Early in his life he was recognized for his abilities in math and physics. He obtained his a doctor's degree in physics in 1922 at the University of Pisa. In 1926 Fermi introduced "Fermi Statistics", which goverened the particles subject to Pauli's exclusion principal. Fermi then worked at the University of Rome until 1938 when he won the Nobel Prize. After he won the Nobel Prize he moved to the U.S. where he had been appointed Professor of Physics at the Columbia University. Fermi's main topic of interest up to this point had been neutrons. In 1942 Fermi was the first person to create a controlled nuclear chain reaction. Because of his experience he had become involved with the first atomic bomb and he was one of the physicists on the Manhattan Project for the development of nuclear energy. At the end of WWII in 1944 Fermi finally became a U.S. citizen. He then accepted a post at the Institute for Nuclear Studies of the University of Chicago. Here he concentrated on high-energy physics until his death in 1954. Although Enrico Fermi never got see the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, his lifes work continues to live on in the experiments at the Fermilab. Fermi's quest for knowledge has helped solve many questions that might have been unanswered still today. His spirit and love for physics can be seen in the spirit of the hard working people at the Fermilab. Their undying quest for knowledge helps give the human race a better understanding of our universe.