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    Via Panisperna boys (Italian: I ragazzi di Via Panisperna) is the name given to a group of young Italian scientists led by Enrico Fermi, who worked at...
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  • I ragazzi di via Panisperna (Via Panisperna Boys) is an Italian movie by director Gianni Amelio, telling the enthusiasms, fears, joys and disappointments...
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    of Rome in 1932 and worked there until 1936, becoming one of the Via Panisperna boys. From 1936 to 1938 he was director of the Physics Laboratory at the...
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    era By groups Harvard Computers The Martians Oxford Calculators Via Panisperna boys Women in physics Scientific disputes Bohr–Einstein Chandrasekhar–Eddington...
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    whom Fermi had appointed as his assistant. They soon nicknamed the "Via Panisperna boys" after the street where the Institute of Physics was located. Fermi...
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    Sapienza University of Rome, under Fermi, becoming the youngest of his Via Panisperna boys. In 1934 he participated in Fermi's famous experiment showing the...
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    Fermi and his students (the Via Panisperna boys) in the courtyard of Rome University's Physics Institute in Via Panisperna, about 1934. From Left to right:...
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    the actor Andrea Prodan, appeared with her in the movie I ragazzi di via Panisperna (1988). A Brazilian rock band named Virna Lisi [pt] (1989–1997) was...
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    the University of Rome (1908). He was also the supervisor of the Via Panisperna boys (including Enrico Fermi). His younger brother was Epicarmo Corbino...
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    Enrico Fermi and his research group (the Via Panisperna boys), circa 1934. Left to right: Oscar D'Agostino, Emilio Segrè, Edoardo Amaldi, Franco Rasetti...
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    machine, but as the device is powered by changes in atmospheric pressure via a mercury barometer, this is not the case. In 1775, the Royal Academy of...
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    Institute of the University of Rome, at that time still located in Via Panisperna. His colleagues included Oscar D'Agostino, Emilio Segrè, Edoardo Amaldi...
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    to Galileo. Cambridge University Press. p. 247. ISBN 978-0-521-58841-6 – via Google Books. Finocchiaro, Maurice A. (2014). "Introduction". The Trial of...
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    young when he joined Enrico Fermi's team in Rome as one of the "Via Panisperna boys", who took their name from the street address of their laboratory...
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  • was started by a discovery of anomaly cancellation in type I string theory via the Green–Schwarz mechanism (named after Michael Green and John H. Schwarz)...
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    Vehicle of the European Space Agency bore his name. Via Panisperna boys I ragazzi di via Panisperna (movie) Nuclear power in Italy Clavarino, Lodovica...
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  • proposal, from special relativity, that mass at rest is equivalent to energy via E = m 0 c 2 {\displaystyle E=m_{0}c^{2}} , de Broglie proposed that matter...
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    a conjectured medium for the propagation of light. The word aether stems via Latin from the Greek αιθήρ, from a root meaning to kindle, burn, or shine...
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    Sumerians around 3500–3000 BC. Our knowledge of Sumerian astronomy is indirect, via the earliest Babylonian star catalogues dating from about 1200 BC. The fact...
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    and Lev Landau (1962 Nobel Prize in Physics) and, later, its explanation via Cooper pairs (1972 Nobel Prize in Physics). The Cooper pair was an early...
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  • Anaximander: Concept of Earth floating in space 460–370 BCE – Democritus: Atomism via thought experiment 384–322 BCE – Aristotle: Aristotelian physics, earliest...
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    universities in the United States, develop noise cancelling for quantum bits via machine learning, taking quantum noise in a quantum chip down to 0%. Quantum...
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