Back Nois de la via Panisperna Catalan Knaboj de Via Panisperna Esperanto Los chicos de la Vía Panisperna Spanish Via Panispernako taldea Basque Ragazzi di Via Panisperna Finnish Garçons de la rue Panisperna French Os mozos da rúa Panisperna Galician הבחורים מוויה פניספרנה HE Panisperna utcai fiúk Hungarian Ragazzi di via Panisperna Italian
Via Panisperna boys (Italian: I ragazzi di Via Panisperna) is the name given to a group of young Italian scientists led by Enrico Fermi, who worked at the Royal Physics Institute of the University of Rome La Sapienza. In 1934 they made the famous discovery of slow neutrons, which later made possible the nuclear reactor and then the construction of the first atomic bomb.
The nickname of the group comes from the address of the Institute, located in a street of Rione Monti in the city centre, which got its name from a nearby monastery, San Lorenzo in Panisperna.
The other members of the group were Edoardo Amaldi, Oscar D'Agostino, Ettore Majorana, Bruno Pontecorvo, Franco Rasetti and Emilio Segrè. All were physicists, except for D'Agostino, who was a chemist.