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    Enrico Fermi (Italian: [enˈriːko ˈfermi]; 29 September 1901 – 28 November 1954) was an Italian and naturalized American physicist, renowned for being...
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    The Enrico Fermi Award is a scientific award conferred by the President of the United States. It is awarded to honor scientists of international stature...
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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 Enrico Fermi Institute for Nuclear Studies. The name was shortened to The Enrico Fermi Institute (EFI) in January 1968. Physicist Enrico Fermi was...
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    exclusion principle. A result is the Fermi–Dirac distribution of particles over energy states. It is named after Enrico Fermi and Paul Dirac, each of whom derived...
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  • physicist Enrico Fermi as he was known for his ability to make good approximate calculations with little or no actual data. An example is Enrico Fermi's estimate...
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    Enrico Fermi High School (defunct) was a high school located in Enfield, Connecticut, and closed when it consolidated with Enfield High School in 2016...
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    writer and political activist. She was the wife of Nobel Prize physicist Enrico Fermi. Lalla "Laura" Capon was born in Rome in 1907 as the second child of...
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    Fermi found use in the Quadro x000 series, Quadro NVS models, and in Nvidia Tesla computing modules. The architecture is named after Enrico Fermi, an...
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    Chicago Pile-1 (category Enrico Fermi)
    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 technical...
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    Europe, Szilard moved to the United States in 1938, where he worked with Enrico Fermi and Walter Zinn on means of creating a nuclear chain reaction. He was...
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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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  • Fermi–Pasta–Ulam–Tsingou recurrence (or Fermi–Pasta–Ulam recurrence) – instead of the expected ergodic behavior. This came as a surprise, as Enrico Fermi...
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  • build its online chatbot, ChatGPT. John N. Bahcall, B.A. 1956 – 2003 Enrico Fermi Award for "innovative research in astrophysics leading to a revolution...
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    quandary takes its name from the Italian-American physicist Enrico Fermi: in the summer of 1950, Fermi was engaged in casual conversation about contemporary...
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    have studied at the Normale, among them Giosuè Carducci, Carlo Rubbia, Enrico Fermi, Aldo Capitini, Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, Giovanni Gronchi, Giovanni Gentile...
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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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  • The Thomas–Fermi (TF) model, named after Llewellyn Thomas and Enrico Fermi, is a quantum mechanical theory for the electronic structure of many-body systems...
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    bursts and solar flares. Fermi, named for high-energy physics pioneer Enrico Fermi, was launched on 11 June 2008 at 16:05 UTC aboard a Delta II 7920-H rocket...
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    Femtometre (redirect from Fermi (unit))
    "15" and the similarity in spelling with fermi. The fermi is named after the Italian physicist Enrico Fermi (1901–1954), one of the founders of nuclear...
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    four-fermion interaction) is an explanation of the beta decay, proposed by Enrico Fermi in 1933. The theory posits four fermions directly interacting with one...
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  • Enrico Fermi (1901–1954), an Italian-born, naturalized American physicist, is the eponym of the topics listed below. Fermi (unit), unit of length in particle...
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    available energy states. The model is named after the Italian physicist Enrico Fermi. This physical model is useful for certain systems with many fermions...
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  • The Enrico Fermi Prize, first awarded in 2001, is given by the Italian Physical Society (Società Italiana di Fisica). It is a yearly award of €30,000 honoring...
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  • Hans Bethe, and Edward Teller, and collaborates with the scientists Enrico Fermi, Leo Szilard, and David L. Hill at the University of Chicago. Teller's...
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  • debris of the first hydrogen bomb explosion in 1952, and named after Enrico Fermi, one of the pioneers of nuclear physics. Its chemistry is typical for...
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    originated from a discussion between physicists John von Neumann and Enrico Fermi and the expression is used in physics to characterize a model with so...
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  • reciprocal of the decoherence bandwidth. Although the rule is named after Enrico Fermi, the first to obtain the formula was Paul Dirac, as he had twenty years...
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    nuclear transmutation. Enrico Fermi and his colleagues in Rome studied the results of bombarding uranium with neutrons, and Fermi concluded that his experiments...
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    included Vannevar Bush, James Chadwick, James B. Conant, Thomas Farrell, Enrico Fermi, Hans Bethe, Richard Feynman, Isidor Isaac Rabi, Leslie Groves, Frank...
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