However the journal Nature rejected Fermi's paper, saying that the theory was " too remote from reality ".

Fermi's paper was published by Zeitschrift für Physik in 1934, and finally published by Nature 5 years later, after Fermi's work had been widely accepted.

Fermi then submitted the paper to Italian and German publications, which accepted and published it in 1933 in those languages, but it did not appear at the time in a primary publication in English ( Nature finally belatedly republished Fermi's report on beta decay in English on January 16, 1939 ).

Fermi's strips-of paper estimate was ten kilotons of TNT ; the actual yield was about 19 kilotons.

In 1934 Fermi published his theory of beta decay, later referred to as Fermi's interaction and ( still later ) the theory of the " weak interaction " ( one of the 4 basic forces in nature, then brand new ).

The study of the strong and weak nuclear forces ( the latter explained by Enrico Fermi via Fermi's interaction in 1934 ) led physicists to collide nuclei and electrons at ever higher energies.

In 1934 he contributed to Fermi's famous experiment showing the properties of slow neutrons that led the way to the discovery of nuclear fission.

The neutrino would not be detected until after Fermi's death, and his interaction theory showed why it was so difficult to detect.

During his years at the Scuola Normale Superiore, Fermi teamed up with a fellow student named Franco Rasetti with whom he would indulge in light-hearted pranks and who would later become Fermi's close friend and collaborator.

* Enrico Fermi's Case File at The Franklin Institute with info about his contributions to theoretical and experimental physics.

The Fermi paradox ( or Fermi's paradox ) is the apparent contradiction between high estimates of the probability of the existence of extraterrestrial civilization and humanity's lack of contact with, or evidence for, such civilizations.

Fermi's experiments at the University of Chicago were part of Arthur H. Compton's Metallurgical Laboratory, part of the Manhattan Project ; the lab was later moved outside Chicago, renamed Argonne National Laboratory, and tasked with conducting research in harnessing fission for nuclear energy.

This rate should affect the tunnel current, so it can be treated using the Fermi's golden rule with the appropriate tunneling matrix element.

The weak force was originally described, in the 1930s, by Fermi's theory of a contact four-fermion interaction: which is to say, a force with no range ( i. e., entirely dependent on physical contact ).

More recently, the Fermi mission was launched carrying the Gamma-Ray Burst Monitor, which detects bursts at a rate of several hundred per year, some of which are bright enough to be observed at extremely high energies with Fermi's Large Area Telescope.

* Fermi GBM / LAT Collaborations, " Testing Einstein's special relativity with Fermi's short hard gamma-ray burst GRB090510 ", http :// arxiv. org / abs / 0908. 1832

One of these introduced the Fermi – Ulam model, which is an extension of Fermi's theory of the acceleration of cosmic rays.

This work was an early quantitative application to atomic spectroscopy of Fermi's statistical model of atomic structure ( now known as the Thomas-Fermi model, due to its contemporaneous description by Llewellyn Thomas ).

Fermi's interest in physics was further encouraged by Adolfo Amidei, a friend of his father, who gave him several books on physics and mathematics, which he read and assimilated quickly.

Fermi's group soon made the discovery of slow neutrons, which was to prove pivotal for the working of nuclear reactors.

This experiment was a landmark in the quest for energy, and it was typical of Fermi's brilliance.

Other common names for the same phenomenon are Fermi's question (" Where are they?

Fermi's work on the nuclear chain reaction laid the foundation for the nuclear power industry which began developing after the war.

Many further results may be obtained, such as Fermi's golden rule, which relates the rate of transitions between quantum states to the density of states at particular energies, and the Dyson series, obtained by applying the iterative method to the time evolution operator, which is one of the starting points for the method of Feynman diagrams.

Now Fermi's golden rule gives a master equation for the average rate of quantum jumps from state α to β ; and from state β to α.

Both of these forces involve constants of nature, Fermi's constant for the weak force and Newton's constant for gravity.

He and his colleagues developed fuel rods for Enrico Fermi's nuclear reactor at the University of Chicago.

They traveled to Stockholm to receive Fermi's Nobel prize, and left from Stockholm for the United States.

However, the chemist Ida Noddack had criticised Fermi's work and had suggested that some of his experiments could have produced lighter elements.

Also, the new laws put most of Fermi's research assistants out of work.

( Due to a mistranslation, Soviet reports said Fermi's work was performed in a converted " pumpkin field " instead of a " squash court ", a mis-translation based on confusion between dual meanings of " squash ", the food-crop plant and the game.

Fermi's most disarming trait was his great modesty, and his ability to do any kind of work, whether creative or routine.

Both theories are, however, semiclassical in nature, although they have been extended to fully quantum mechanical treatments by Joshua Jortner, Alexender M. Kuznetsov, and others proceeding from the Fermi's Golden Rule and following earlier work in non-radiative transitions.

Fermi's knowledge of quantum physics reached such a high level that Prof. Puccianti asked him to organize seminars about that topic.

Nature eventually did publish Fermi's report on beta decay on January 16, 1939.

The key observation hinged on on a repeatably greater radioactivity seen on a wooden table top than on an Italian marble table top, in Fermi's laboratory.

Fermi's strips-of-paper estimate was ten kilotons of TNT ; the actual yield was about 19 kilotons.

In Fermi's 1954 address to the American Physical Society ( APS ) he also said, " Well, this brings us to Pearl Harbor.

Fermi's ability and success stemmed as much from his appraisal of the art of the possible, as from his innate skill and intelligence.

* A synthetic element isolated from the debris of the 1952 Ivy Mike nuclear test was named fermium, in honor of Fermi's contributions to the scientific community.

A revision of I. Halpern's notes on E. Fermi's lectures in 1945 ", United States Department of Energy ( through predecessor agency the Atomic Energy Commission ), ( October 1951 ).