Manes, Gianfranco, editorPelosi, Giuseppe, editor
Decoding the mysteries of nuclear fission required a great deal of experimentation and calculations. One bright physicist in particular made great strides on both fronts. That man was [Enrico Fermi], one of the fathers of the atomic bomb. Perhaps his greatest contribution to moving the research b...
The article, written as an internal report of the Los Alamos Laboratories, was completed in May 1955, after Fermi's death, but appeared for the first time in 1965, as contribution N. 266 to "Note e Memorie" (Collected Papers), an anthology of Fermi's writings edited among others by ...
these particles, which includeelectrons,protons,neutrons(not yet discovered), and other particles with half-integer spin, are now known asfermions. This was a contribution of exceptional importance to atomic and nuclear physics, particularly in this period whenquantummechanics was first being applied....