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Record Nr.

UNINA9910986143603321

Autore

Treves Aldo

Titolo

Enrico Fermi, Atomic Physics Lectures / / edited by Aldo Treves, Pasquale Tucci

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2025

ISBN

9783031686900

303168690X

Edizione

[1st ed. 2025.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (229 pages)

Collana

History of Physics, , 2730-7557

Altri autori (Persone)

TucciPasquale

Disciplina

509

Soggetti

Physics - History

Nuclear physics

Particles (Nuclear physics)

Quantum field theory

History of Physics and Astronomy

Nuclear Physics

Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Enrico Fermi Life -- Enrico Fermi and the communication of physics -- Presentation of Enrcio Fermi Conferenze di Fisica Atomica Raccolte da professori ed assistenti di Fisica delle Universita di Roma Milano in 1949 -- First lecture The elementary particles -- Biographical notices on Sebastiano Sciuti -- Second lecture The elementary particles -- Biographical notices on Lucio Mezzetti -- Third lecture Theories on the origins of the elements -- Biographical notices on Ettore Pancini -- Fourth lecture The search of an attraction between an electron and a neutron -- Biographical notices on BE Cacciapuoti -- Fifth lecture Nuclear orbits -- Biographical notices on Mario Ageno -- Sixth lecture New developments in quantum electrodynamics -- Biographical notices on Giacomo Morpurgo -- Seventh lecture The neutron -- Biographical notices on Carlo Salvetti -- Eighth lecture Optical similarities in neutron properties -- Biographical notices on Carlo Salvetti -- Nineth lecture The Dirac monopole -- Biographical notices on Piero Caldirola.

Sommario/riassunto

In autumn of 1949, Enrico Fermi returned to Italy after an eleven-year



absence to deliver nine lectures, six in Rome and three in Milan. Apart from subsequent limited publication, this material has been little seen by the larger scientific community. This volume represents the first time that these nine lectures have been published in English. The nine lectures collected in this book represent a precious document of Fermi’s view on topics with which he had engaged in the previous decades. They were addressed to the young Italian physicists and to a more general audience only then beginning to recover from the physical and moral disruption of the war. Published in collaboration with the Italian Physical Society (SIF), the book includes a presentation of the president of SIF, an introduction written by the editors, and two substantial essays: one on Fermi’s life, and a second on Fermi’s skill in talking about Physics in a clear and sparkling manner. The volume appears as a contribution to the 70th anniversary of Fermi's death, and should appeal not only to students of physics, but to both those with an interest in the history of science in general and those who wish for a clearer picture of the life and mind of this pioneering physicist. .