Enrico Fermi : his work and legacy / edited by Carlo Bernardini and Luisa Bonolis.

Other author Bernardini, C. (Carlo)
Other author Bonolis, Luisa.
Format Book
Publication InfoBologna : Società Italiana di Fisica ; Berlin ; New York : Springer, ©2004.
Descriptionxii, 410 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Subjects
Fermi, Enrico, 1901-1954--Contributions in nuclear physics.
Nuclear physics--History.

Uniform titleConoscere Fermi. English.
Contents 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physics / Maurice Jacob and Luciano Maiani -- Enrico Fermi's contribution to non-linear systems: the influence of an unpublished article / Massimo Falcioni and Angelo Vulpiani -- Fermi's last lessons / Renato Angelo Ricci -- Enrico Fermi's scientific work / Luisa Bonolis -- Fermi's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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2004108212
ISBN8874380151 (SIF, Bologna, Italy : alk. paper)
ISBN3540221417 (Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York : alk. paper)

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