Bust of Enrico Fermi
date: label: Date made
content: 1960
name: label: maker
content: Runtsch, Clarence F.
notes: label: Description
content: Enrico Fermi (1901-1954) was an Italian physicist who won a Nobel Prize in 1938, moved to the United States, and made important contributions to the Manhattan Project. Clarence Frederick Runtsch (1923-2010), the sculptor, was born in Nebraska, served with the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II, and studied at the Kansas City Art Institute. In 1954 he became a designer at the American Museum of Atomic Energy in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Tennessee, Oak Ridge
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Modern Physics
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: EM.N-07988
label: catalog number
content: N-07988
label: accession number
content: 235633
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Bust of Enrico Fermi
label: Object Type
content: sculpture
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 21 1/4 in x 7 1/4 in x 8 1/2 in; 53.975 cm x 18.415 cm x 21.59 cm