Proceedings of the International Conference
"Enrico Fermi and the Universe of Physics"
Rome, September 29 - October 2, 2001
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Descrizione:
Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare - ENEA - Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali
Direzione Generale per i Beni Librari e gli Istituti Culturali
SIPS - In 8°, brossura 406 pp., ill.ni b/n
Index
009 A Short Presentation of the Fermi Centennial Conference
Carlo Bernardini
013 Enrico Fermi: a Guiding Light in an Anguished Century
Giorgio Salvini
033 Fermi's Contribution to the World Energy Supply
Carlo Rubbia
043 Enrico Fermi and his Family
Alice Caton
053 The Birth and Early Days of the Fermi Group in Rome
Gerald Holton
071 Fermi toward Quantum Statistics (1923-1925)
Fabio Sebastiani, Francesco Cordella
097 The Evolution of Fermi's Statistical Theory of Atoms
Jan Philip Solovej
105 Nuclear Physics at the Cavendish Laboratory in the Thirties
Jeff Hughes
119 Cooperation and Competition among Nuclear Physics Laboratories
during the Thirties: the Role of Frédéric Joliot
Michel Pinault
133 From Fermi to Fission: Meitner, Hahn and Strassmann in Berlin
Ruth Lewin Sime
145 Slow Neutrons at Via Panisperna: the Discovery, the Production of
Isotopes and the Birth of Nuclear Medicine
Ugo Amaldi
169 Funds and Failures: the Political Economy of Fermi's Group
Giovanni Battimelli
185 Fermi and Quantum Electrodynamics (QED)
Sam Schweber
217 Fermi and Applied Nuclear Physics during the War (1939-1945)
Michelangelo De Maria
219 New Large Accelerators in the World in the Forties and Early Fifties
Dominique Pestre
221 Enrico Fermi and the Birth of High-Energy Physics after World War II
Giulio Maltese
259 Enrico Fermi, High-Energy Physics and High Speed Computing
Robert Seidel
269 Women in Physics in Fermi's Time
Nina Byers
289 Documents on Fermi's Life
Harold Agnew
295 Fermi and the Ergodic Problem
Giovanni Gallavotti
303 Fermi and General Relativity
Tullio Regge
305 Fermi's Tentativo and Weak Interactions
Nicola Cabibbo
317 Enrico Fermi, the Man. Excerpts from some documents
Jay Orear
341 Experimental Nuclear Physics in the Thirties and Forties
John L. Heilbron
361 The Beginnings of Pion and Muon Physics
Leon Lederman
365 Perspectives in High Energy Particle Physics
Luciano Maiani
389 Enrico Fermi
Chen Ning Yang
395 Concluding Remarks
Giorgio Salvini
399 Report on the Celebrations for the Centenary of Enrico Fermi's Birth
Carlo Bernardini, Rocco Capasso
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