Abstract

Enrico Fermi. His life and a comment on his work.- Commemoration talks.- Enrico Fermi and Solid State Physics.- Fermi's statistics.- Classical mechanics and the quantum revolution in Fermi's early works.- On the adiabatic invariants.- Fermi's coordinates and the Principle of Equivalence.- Fermi and quantum electrodynamics.- Weak interactions.- Nuclear physics from the nineteen thirties to the present day..- The birth of nuclear energy: Fermi's pile.- From the Chicago Pile 1 to the next-generation reactors..- Reactors and nuclear technology: Development in the world.- The scientific legacy of Fermi in particle physics.- Enrico Fermi's contribution to non-linear systems: The influence of an unpublished article.- Fermi's last lessons.- Enrico Fermi's scientific work.- Fermi's bibliography related to the papers presented in this book.- Analytical index.

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