The historian of physics, C. P. Snow, wrote that "if Fermi had been born a few years earlier, one could well imagine him discovering Rutherford's atomic nucleus, and then developing Bohr's theory of the hydrogen atom.
Známy historik fyziky, C. P. Snow, o ňom hovorí, „Keby sa Fermi narodil o niekoľko rokov skôr, je celkom možné si ho predstaviť ako objaviteľa Rutherfordoveho atómového jadra a potom pôvodcu Bohrovej teórie atómu vodíka.