Fermi 1 was the United States' only demonstration-scale breeder reactor, built during the 1950s at the Enrico Fermi Nuclear Generating Station on the...
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Enrico Fermi ForMemRS (Italian: [enˈriːko ˈfermi]; 29 September 1901 – 28 November 1954) was an Italian and naturalized American physicist, renowned for...
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Fermi–Dirac statistics is a type of quantum statistics that applies to the physics of a system consisting of many non-interacting, identical particles...
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The Enrico Fermi Nuclear Generating Station is a nuclear power plant on the shore of Lake Erie near Monroe, in Frenchtown Charter Township, Michigan on...
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The Fermi level of a solid-state body is the thermodynamic work required to add one electron to the body. It is a thermodynamic quantity usually denoted...
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The Fermi energy is a concept in quantum mechanics usually referring to the energy difference between the highest and lowest occupied single-particle...
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The Fermi paradox is the discrepancy between the lack of conclusive evidence of advanced extraterrestrial life and the apparently high likelihood of its...
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A Fermi problem (or Fermi quiz, Fermi question, Fermi estimate), also known as an order-of-magnitude problem (or order-of-magnitude estimate, order estimation)...
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A Fermi gas is an idealized model, an ensemble of many non-interacting fermions. Fermions are particles that obey Fermi–Dirac statistics, like electrons...
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Fermi surface is the surface in reciprocal space which separates occupied from unoccupied electron states at zero temperature. The shape of the Fermi...
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Femtometre (redirect from Fermi (unit))
physics. 1000000 zeptometres = 1 femtometre = 1 fermi = 0.000001 nanometre = 10−15 metres 1000000000000 femtometres = 1 millimetre. For example, the charge...
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In particle physics, Fermi's interaction (also the Fermi theory of beta decay or the Fermi four-fermion interaction) is an explanation of the beta decay...
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The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope (FGST, also FGRST), formerly called the Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST), is a space observatory being...
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Look up Fermi or fermi in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Enrico Fermi (1901–1954) was an Italian physicist who created the world's first nuclear reactor...
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Laura Fermi. Olivia Fermi (2014) Laura Fermi's Life from The Fermi Effect Nella Fermi Weiner (1994) Biography of Laura Fermi Guide to the Laura Fermi Papers...
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Fermi acceleration, sometimes referred to as diffusive shock acceleration (a subclass of Fermi acceleration), is the acceleration that charged particles...
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In physics, the Fermi–Pasta–Ulam–Tsingou (FPUT) problem or formerly the Fermi–Pasta–Ulam problem was the apparent paradox in chaos theory that many complicated...
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Generation II reactor (redirect from Generation 1 reactor)
prototype of power reactors, such as Shippingport, Magnox/UNGG, AMB, Fermi 1, and Dresden 1. The last commercial Gen I power reactor was located at the Wylfa...
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self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction was initiated in CP-1 during an experiment led by Enrico Fermi. The secret development of the reactor was the first major...
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Fermi is the codename for a graphics processing unit (GPU) microarchitecture developed by Nvidia, first released to retail in April 2010, as the successor...
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mathematical theory of Riemannian geometry, there are two uses of the term Fermi coordinates. In one use they are local coordinates that are adapted to a...
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A quasi Fermi level is a term used in quantum mechanics and especially in solid state physics for the Fermi level (chemical potential of electrons) that...
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In quantum physics, Fermi's golden rule is a formula that describes the transition rate (the probability of a transition per unit time) from one energy...
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Fermi liquid theory (also known as Landau's Fermi-liquid theory) is a theoretical model of interacting fermions that describes the normal state of the...
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A Fermi resonance is the shifting of the energies and intensities of absorption bands in an infrared or Raman spectrum. It is a consequence of quantum-mechanical...
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Fermi heap and Fermi hole refer to two closely related quantum phenomena that occur in many-electron atoms. They arise due to the Pauli exclusion principle...
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Electron degeneracy pressure (redirect from Fermi pressure)
degenerate energy levels, but to Fermi–Dirac statistics close to the zero-temperature limit (temperatures much smaller than the Fermi temperature, which for metals...
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Fermilab (redirect from Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), located in Batavia, Illinois, near Chicago, is a United States Department of Energy national laboratory...
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complete Fermi–Dirac integral, named after Enrico Fermi and Paul Dirac, for an index j is defined by F j ( x ) = 1 Γ ( j + 1 ) ∫ 0 ∞ t j e t − x + 1 d t ...
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Susana Field Laboratory (civilian), California, United States, in 1959 Fermi 1 (civilian), Michigan, United States, in 1966 Chapelcross nuclear power...
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