Enrico Fermi (1901–1954)
Auteur de Thermodynamics
A propos de l'auteur
Born in Rome, Italy, Enrico Fermi was primarily self-taught. At the age of 17, he had already acquired a thorough understanding of classical physics. With his friend Enrico Persico, Fermi performed experiments, using handmade apparatus and thus obtaining an excellent grasp of experimental physics. afficher plus He trained in Pisa, Gottingen, and Leiden, working with leading figures in the new quantum mechanics. He received his Ph.D. at the University of Pisa in 1922 and returned to Rome in 1926, where he spent several years working on the statistical mechanics of particles and wrote the first textbook on modern physics to be published in Italy. In 1934 Fermi began a series of experiments producing new radioactive isotopes by neutron bombardment. This was the work for which he was awarded a Nobel Prize in 1938. After the prize ceremony, Fermi did not return to Italy, because of the Fascist regime, but emigrated with his wife and two children to the United States. As part of the atomic bomb effort, Fermi directed the design and construction of the first nuclear reactor at the University of Chicago, which began operating in December 1942. He spent the next two years with Arthur H. Compton leading the American team that constructed the first atomic bomb. Fermi was one of the few modern physicists to excel in both theory and experiment. His accomplishments were foundation points for many branches of physics, including studies of the statistics of particles obeying the exclusion principle, quantum electrodynamics, beta-decay, artificial radioactivity, pion-nucleon collision, and nuclear chain reactions. Fermi died of cancer in 1954. The next year the newly discovered element with atomic number 100 was named fermium in his honor. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
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Œuvres de Enrico Fermi
Molecules, Crystals, and Quantum Statistics 4 exemplaires
Fisica ad uso dei Licei, Volume Primo 2 exemplaires
Fisica: per le scuole medie superiori 1 exemplaire
Nuclear Physics: Course Notes (Revised Edition) 1 exemplaire
Molecole e cristalli 1 exemplaire
I grandi della scienza. Fermi. Saggi scelti 1 exemplaire
Nuclear Physics A Course Given By Enrico Fermi At The Unversity Of Chicago. Notes Compiled By Jay Orear, ,A H Rosenfeld (1950) 1 exemplaire
Elettrodinamica. Prima edizione integrale del dattiloscritto del corsodi fisica matematica del 1924-25 presso… (2007) 1 exemplaire
Квантовая механика. Notes on quantum mechanics 1 exemplaire
Meccanica statistica: scritti scelti 1 exemplaire
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Fermi, Enrico
- Autres noms
- Ферми, Энрико
- Date de naissance
- 1901-09-29
- Date de décès
- 1954-11-28
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- Italy (birth)
USA (naturalized, 1944) - Lieu de naissance
- Rome, Italy
- Lieu du décès
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Études
- Scuola Normale Superiore (Pisa, Italy)
- Professions
- physicist
- Relations
- Fermi, Laura (wife)
Chew, Geoffrey (student)
Lee, T. D. (doctoral student)
Szilard, Leo (colleague)
Mayer, Maria Goeppert (colleague)
Wick, Gian Carlo (assistant) (tout afficher 7)
Steinberger, Jack (student) - Prix et distinctions
- Nobel Prize (Physics, 1938)
- Notice de désambigüisation
- VIAF:56670056
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