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    proved to be instrumental in the whole subject of Disordered Systems." Enrico Fermi Prize, 2002. "For his contributions to field theory and statistical mechanics...
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    Herbert L. Anderson (category Enrico Fermi Award recipients)
    of Chicago until his retirement in 1982. There, he helped Fermi establish the Enrico Fermi Institute and was its director from 1958 to 1962. The latter...
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    Theoretical Physics with Enrico Fermi on January 26, 1939. The results were quickly corroborated by experimental physicists, most notably Fermi and John R. Dunning...
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  • Delivered at the International School of Physics "Enrico Fermi", Foundations of Quantum Mechanics, Institut de physique théorique, 1970 Foundations of Quantum...
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    participants there have been famous Nobel laureates in Physics like Enrico Fermi, Wolfgang Pauli, Murray Gell-Mann and John Bardeen amongst others. According...
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    Fritz Strassmann (category Enrico Fermi Award recipients)
    President Lyndon Johnson honored Hahn, Meitner and Strassmann with the Enrico Fermi Award. The International Astronomical Union named an asteroid after him:...
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  • product expansion in quantum field theory. With Reinhard Oehme of the Enrico Fermi Institute in Chicago (with whom he already collaborated in Göttingen...
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  • span parts of Europe and Asia. Fermitron was an accelerator sketched by Enrico Fermi on a notepad in the 1940s proposing an accelerator in stable orbit around...
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  • Fiorini died on 9 April 2023, at the age of 89. Fiorini received the 2007 Enrico Fermi Prize in recognition for his work on weak neutral currents and solar...
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    with magnetic fields. The total energy changes with ~60 neV/T. It was Enrico Fermi who realized first that the coherent scattering of slow neutrons would...
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    of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic 2013 Enrico Fermi Prize from the Italian Physical Society. 2014 Lise Meitner Prize from...
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    the stopping of charged particles traveling through matter; and with Enrico Fermi in Rome. In 1932, Bloch returned to Leipzig to assume a position as "Privatdozent"...
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    before the war due to antisemitism and political persecution. Whereas Enrico Fermi, a scientific Manhattan Project leader, had a "unique double aptitude...
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    the years 1953–56. From 1956 to 1959, he was Research Associate at the Enrico Fermi Institute at the University of Chicago, and then became a Research Staff...
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    Lise Meitner (category Enrico Fermi Award recipients)
    electric charge and little or no rest mass. The idea was taken up by Enrico Fermi in his 1934 theory of beta decay, and he gave the name "neutrino" to...
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    of beta decay. In 1934, Enrico Fermi incorporated the particle, which he called a neutrino, "little neutral one" in Fermi's native Italian, into his...
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    their PhD degrees under Born at Göttingen, and his assistants included Enrico Fermi, Werner Heisenberg, Gerhard Herzberg, Friedrich Hund, Wolfgang Pauli...
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    name. The word "neutrino" entered the scientific vocabulary through Enrico Fermi, who used it during a conference in Paris in July 1932 and at the Solvay...
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    Fermi in Rome 2018 - European Physical Society Achievement Award 2020 - Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences 2022 - Co-recipient of the Enrico Fermi...
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    puzzle of nuclear spins. The origins of beta radiation were explained by Enrico Fermi in 1934 by the process of beta decay, in which the neutron decays to...
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  • the elements and inspired a small group of Italian scientists led by Enrico Fermi to begin a series of experiments involving neutron bombardment. Although...
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    in Italy, the seeded-FEL source FERMI@Elettra started commissioning, at the Trieste Synchrotron Laboratory. FERMI@Elettra is a single-pass FEL user-facility...
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    Recherche Scientifique CNRS, 1947-57. During this period he also worked with Enrico Fermi in Chicago, 1951–52, and on a research project led by Niels Bohr at the...
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  • other members of the team were Herbert L. Anderson, John R. Dunning, Enrico Fermi, G. Norris Glasoe, and Francis G. Slack. During World War II, Booth was...
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    soon changed his first and middle names. With the help of physicist Enrico Fermi, whom he knew from his time at the University of Rome, Luria received...
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    the 1925 Nobel Prize in Physics. While at Göttingen, Houtermans met Enrico Fermi, George Gamow, Werner Heisenberg, Wolfgang Pauli, and Victor Frederick...
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  • magnetized mercury, with a velocity that approximated Alfvén's formula. 1949: Enrico Fermi uses Alfvén waves in his theory of cosmic rays. 1950: Alfvén publishes...
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  • Freedom (Presidential Award) 1956 Albert Einstein Commemorative Award 1956 Enrico Fermi Award, U.S. Atomic Energy Commission 1957 American Meteorological Society...
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    Noddack quickly published a paper questioning Fermi’s conclusion. Noddack correctly criticized Enrico Fermi's chemical proofs in his 1934 neutron bombardment...
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    a nanny for Philippa and Jeremy Whitaker in Hampshire. After attending Institut Alpin Videmanette (a finishing school in Rougemont, Switzerland) for one...
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