A brief history of fermium

Answer 1

Fermium was found by Albert Ghiorso an co-workers in 1952 in the debris from the nuclear test - first thermonuclear bomb experiment - in the Enawetak atoll.
In 1954 fermium was prepared also at the Berkeley Radiation Laboratories; the Nobel Institute of Physics (Sweden) had contributions to this discovery.
After this many other isotopes of Fm were discovered.