Enrico Fermi : his work and legacy /
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| Uniform title: | Conoscere Fermi English |
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| Imprint: | Bologna : Società Italiana di Fisica ; Berlin ; New York : Springer, c2004. |
| Description: | xii, 410 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5361826 |
Table of Contents:
- Foreword / Gerald Holton
- Preface / Carlo Bernardini
- Enrico Fermi : his life and a comment on his work / Giorgio Salvini
- Commemoration of the Academy Fellow Enrico Fermi / Edoardo Amaldi
- Commemoration of Enrico Fermi / Enrico Persico
- Enrico Fermi and Italian physics / Franco Rasetti
- Enrico Fermi and solid state physics / Franco Bassani
- Fermi's statistics / Giorgio Parisi
- Classical mechanics and the quantum revolution in Fermi's early works / Giovanni Gallavotti
- On the adiabatic invariants / Tullio Levi-Civita
- Fermi's coordinates and the principle of equivalence / Bruno Bertotti
- Fermi and quantum electrodynamics / Marcello Cini
- Weak interactions / Nicola Cabibbo
- Nuclear physics from the nineteen thirties to the present day / Ugo Amaldi
- The birth of nuclear energy : Fermi's pile / Carlo Salvetti
- From the Chicago Pile 1 to the next-generation reactors / Augusto Gandini
- Reactors and nuclear technology : development in the world / Maurizio Cumo
- The scientific legacy of Fermi in particle physics / Maurice Jacob and Luciano Maiani
- Enrico Fermi's contribution to non-linear systems : the influence of an unpublished article / Massimo Falcioni and Angelo Vulpiani
- Fermi's last lessons / Renato Angelo Ricci
- Enrico Fermi's scientific work / Luisa Bonolis
- Fermi's bibliography related to the papers presented in this book.
