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Is the Nobel Prize he won shared or individual?

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Answer

Yes, the Nobel Prize he won was shared with the Italian physicist Franco Rasetti. The Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded in 1938 to Fermi and Rasetti "for their discoveries in the field of nuclear physics". The two men had worked together at the University of Rome, where they had discovered nuclear fission in 1934.
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