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.
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.
Higher education and projects for young researchers
The Enrico Fermi Historical Physics Museum and Study and Research Centre (CREF) is located in the building that housed the historic Royal Institute of Physics in the 1930s, where Enrico Fermi and a group of young physicists carried out the first experiments on neutron-induced radioactivity, fundamental for the future development of nuclear energy. It was here that the history of physics and the entire twentieth century was written.
In 1999, to honour the historical memory of the place, Parliament unanimously approved a law to create a new research institution, the “Historical Museum of Physics and the Enrico Fermi Study and Research Centre”, under the supervision of the Ministry of the University.
From November 2019, with the official handover of the restored building, the real operational, scientific and museum phase of the CREF will begin.
The mission of the organisation is, therefore, twofold:
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