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The Enrico Fermi Research Center - CREF promotes original and high-impact lines of research, based on physical methods, but with a strong interdisciplinary character and in relation to the main problems of the modern knowledge society.

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The CREF was born with a dual soul: a research centre and a historical museum. Its aim is to preserve and disseminate the memory of Enrico Fermi and to promote the dissemination and communication of scientific culture.

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Angela Bracco is the new president of CREF

The Historical Museum of Physics and Enrico Fermi Study and Research Center (CREF) announces that on Friday 5 April 2024 the Minister of University and Research (MUR), Senator Anna Maria Bernini, appointed the new President of the Historical Museum of Physics and the Enrico Fermi Study and Research Center in the person of Prof. Angela Bracco, Full Professor of experimental physics of fundamental interactions at the Department of Physics of the University of Milan and President of the Italian Physical Society (SIF).

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