Mathematician:Enrico Fermi
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Mathematician
Italian (later naturalized American) physicist and the creator of the world's first nuclear reactor.
Nationality
Italian (later American)
History
- Born: 29 September 1901 in Rome, Kingdom of Italy
- Died: 28 November 1954 in Chicago, Illinois, US
Theorems and Definitions
- Fermion
- Fermi Gas
- Fermi-Dirac Statistics (with Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac)
- Fermi's Golden Rule
- Fermi Paradox
- Fermi Method
- Thomas-Fermi Model (with Llewellyn Hilleth Thomas)
- Thomas-Fermi Screening (with Llewellyn Hilleth Thomas)
- Fermi Theory of Beta Decay
- Davis-Chandrasekhar-Fermi Method (with Leverett Davis Jr and Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar)
- Fermi Coordinates
Results named for Enrico Fermi can be found here.
Definitions of concepts named for Enrico Fermi can be found here.
Publications
- 1928: Introduzione alla Fisica Atomica
- 1929: Fisica per i Licei
- 1934: Molecole e cristalli
- 1937: Thermodynamics
- 1938: Fisica per Istituti Tecnici
- 1938: Fisica per Licei Scientifici (with Edoardo Amaldi)
- 1951: Elementary particles
- 1961: Notes on Quantum Mechanics