List of things named after Enrico Fermi
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Enrico Fermi (1901–1954), an Italian-born, naturalized American physicist, is the eponym of the topics listed below.
- Fermi (unit), unit of length in particle physics equivalent to the femtometre
- Fermi arc, a phenomenon in superconductivity
- Fermi constant, constant that gives the strength of Fermi's interaction
- Fermi contact interaction, the magnetic interaction between an electron and an atomic nucleus when the electron is inside that nucleus
- Fermi energy
- Fermi's four factor formula
- Fermi gas
- Fermi's interaction, an explanation of the beta decay
- Fermi level
- Fermi liquid theory
- Quasi Fermi level, also called imref which is "fermi" spelt backwards
- Fermi heap and Fermi hole
- Fermi–Kurie plot of beta decay
- Fermi paradox, a fundamental issue in SETI
- Fermi point
- Fermi pseudopotential
- Fermi's golden rule
- Fermi motion, the quantum motion of nucleons bound inside a nucleus
- Fermi resonance
- Fermi surface
- Fermi acceleration
- Fermi–Ulam model
- Fermi–Pustyl'nikov model, a model of the Fermi acceleration mechanism
- Fermi glow
- Fermi ball
- Fermi sea
- Fermi transition
- Fermi–Walker transport
- Fermi–Dirac statistics
- Fermion, the class of particles that obey Fermi-Dirac statistics, a name coined by Dirac in 1945
- Fermium, a synthetic element with symbol Fm and atomic number 100.
- Fermionic field
- Thomas–Fermi model approximation
- Thomas–Fermi model
- Thomas–Fermi screening, an approximate method for describing screening of electric field by mobile charge
- International School of Physics "Enrico Fermi", an annual summer school hosted by the Italian Physical Society
Mathematics
- Complete Fermi–Dirac integral
- Incomplete Fermi–Dirac integral
- Fermi–Walker differentiation
- Fermi coordinates, local coordinates that are adapted to a geodesic in Riemannian geometry
- Fermi–Pasta–Ulam–Tsingou problem
- Fermi problem, estimation problem designed to teach dimensional analysis, and approximation
- Fermi paradox, typical example of a Fermi problem pertaining to extraterrestrial civilizations
Research
- Fermilab, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
- Enrico Fermi Institute, Chicago, Illinois
- FeRMI, a research federation in Toulouse, France [1]
- Fermi Avenue, Harwell Campus