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fermi
1[fur-mee, fer-mee]
noun
a unit of length, 10− 15 m, used in measuring nuclear distances. F
Fermi
2[fur-mee, fer-mee]
noun
Enrico 1901–54, Italian physicist, in the U.S. after 1939: Nobel Prize 1938.
Fermi
1/ ˈfɜːmɪ, ˈfɛrmi /
noun
Enrico (enˈriːko). 1901-54, Italian nuclear physicist, in the US from 1939. He was awarded a Nobel prize for physics in 1938 for his work on radioactive substances and nuclear bombardment and headed the group that produced the first controlled nuclear reaction (1942)
fermi
2/ ˈfɜːmɪ /
noun
a unit of length used in nuclear physics equal to 10 –15 metre
Fermi
Italian-born American physicist who won a 1938 Nobel Prize for his research on neutrons. In 1942, with Leo Szilard, Fermi built the world's first nuclear reactor. He also discovered over 40 new isotopes, including the element fermium, which is named for him.
Word History and Origins
Origin of Fermi1
Example Sentences
Such a detection is possible today only if the lone gamma-ray telescope in orbit, the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, is pointing in the direction of the supernova at the time it explodes.
“It’s a very clever idea and it looks like they did a nice job in implementing it,” says Aaron Chou, a quantum physicist at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.
A Fermi liquid is a special state of many quantum mechanical particles with properties that can be very different from those of ordinary classical liquids such as water at ambient temperature.
This dramatic disparity between electron and hole-carrier transport is attributed to spatially separated electronic states near the Fermi level, which consists of dispersive and flat bands.
"Gamma rays, however, travel directly to us," said Elizabeth Hays, the Fermi project scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
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