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
Our research centre 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 radioactivity induced by neutrons, fundamental to the future development of nuclear energy. Here, the history of physics and the whole twentieth century was written.
In 1999, Parliament unanimously approved a law to create a new research institution, the “Enrico Fermi Historical Museum of Physics and Research Centre” (CREF) under the supervision of the Ministry of the University, to honour the historical memory of the place.
With the official inauguration of the restored building in November 2019, the CREF’s real operational, scientific and museum phase will begin.
The organisation’s mission is therefore twofold:
Via Panisperna 89 A – 00184 Roma
PEC: centrofermi@pec.centrofermi.it
CUU: UF5JTW
Phone: +39 06 4550 2901
VAT: 06431991006
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