# Fermi Enrico — Patents explained on PatentBrief

Fermi Enrico has 1 landmark patent explained in plain English on PatentBrief.

- [How the First Nuclear Reactor Works](https://patentbrief.org/patent/us/2708656/nuclear-reactor-fermi-szilard) — granted 1955
  The foundational 1955 patent by Enrico Fermi and Leo Szilard describing the design of the first nuclear reactor capable of a self-sustaining chain reaction.

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