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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 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • calculations. Fermi problems are usually back-of-the-envelope calculations. The estimation technique is named after physicist Enrico Fermi as he was known...
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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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  • 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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    J. Robert Oppenheimer (category Enrico Fermi Award recipients)
    continued to lecture, write, and work in physics, and in 1963 was given the Enrico Fermi Award as a gesture of political rehabilitation. In 2022, the U.S. government...
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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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • microprocessors from 50 MHz to 3 GHz John N. Bahcall, B.A. 1956 – 2003 Enrico Fermi Award for "innovative research in astrophysics leading to a revolution...
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    Edward Teller (category Enrico Fermi Award recipients)
    Jahn–Teller and Renner–Teller effects), and surface physics. His extension of Enrico Fermi's theory of beta decay, in the form of Gamow–Teller transitions, provided...
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  • Davis Jr in 1951 and independently by Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar and Enrico Fermi in 1953. According to this method, the magnetic field B {\displaystyle...
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  • first explained by the Italian physicist Enrico Fermi. Two conditions must be satisfied for the occurrence of Fermi resonance: The two vibrational modes of...
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    engineering student. In 1927, Segrè met Franco Rasetti, who introduced him to Enrico Fermi. The two young physics professors were looking for talented students...
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  • reciprocal of the decoherence bandwidth. Although the rule is named after Enrico Fermi, most of the work leading to it is due to Paul Dirac, who twenty years...
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    to acquire stockpiles of uranium ore and accelerate the research of Enrico Fermi and others into nuclear chain reactions. They had it signed by Albert...
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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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    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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  • Lawrence – researcher and professor of medical physics(1935–1970); 1983 Enrico Fermi Award "for pioneering work and continuing leadership in nuclear medicine...
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