Editing Italian Americans (section)

=== Science ===

[[File:RasettiFermiSegre.JPG|thumb|upright=1.3|[[Enrico Fermi]] between [[Franco Rasetti]] (left) and [[Emilio Segrè]] in [[academic dress]]]]
Italian Americans have been responsible for major breakthroughs in virtually all fields of science, including engineering, medicine, and physics. Physicist and Nobel Prize laureate [[Enrico Fermi]] was the creator of the world's first nuclear reactor, the [[Chicago Pile-1]], and among the leading scientists involved in the [[Manhattan Project]] during World War II. One of Fermi's main collaborators, [[Franco Rasetti]], was awarded the [[Charles Doolittle Walcott Medal]] by the [[National Academy of Sciences]] for his contributions to Cambrian paleontology. [[Federico Faggin]] developed the first microchip and microprocessor.
[[Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli]] was a key figure whose pioneering technical developments and entrepreneurial drive established the standard chip software-design tool used across the world today.
[[Robert Gallo]] led research that identified a cancer-causing virus. [[Anthony Fauci]] in 2008 was awarded the [[Presidential Medal of Freedom]] for his work on the [[AIDS]] relief program [[President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief|PEPFAR]].<ref>{{Cite news |date=2021 |title=Fauci: The Virus Hunter |work=PBS |type=Special Documentary}}</ref> Astrophysicist [[Riccardo Giacconi]] was awarded the 2002 Nobel Prize in Physics for his contributions to the discovery of cosmic X-ray sources. Virologist [[Renato Dulbecco]] won the 1975 [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] for his work on [[oncovirus]]es. Pharmacologist [[Louis Ignarro]] was co-recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for demonstrating the signaling properties of nitric oxide. Microbiologist [[Salvador Luria]] won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1969 for his contribution to major discoveries on the replication mechanism and the genetic structure of viruses. Physicist [[William Daniel Phillips]] in 1997 won the Nobel Prize in Physics for his contributions to [[laser cooling]]. Physicist [[Emilio Segrè]] discovered the elements [[technetium]] and [[astatine]], and the [[antiproton]], a subatomic antiparticle, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1959. Nine Italian Americans, including a woman, have gone into space as astronauts: [[Wally Schirra]], [[Dominic A. Antonelli|Dominic Antonelli]], [[Charles Camarda]], [[Mike Massimino]], [[Richard Mastracchio]], [[Ronald Parise]], [[Mario Runco]], [[Albert Sacco]], and [[Nicole Marie Passonno Stott]]. [[Rocco Petrone]] was the third director of the NASA [[Marshall Space Flight Center]], from 1973 to 1974.