Fermi (disambiguation)
 |
Look up Fermi or fermi in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. |
Enrico Fermi (1901–1954) was an Italian physicist who created the world's first nuclear reactor.
Fermi may also refer to:
Physics
- Fermi (unit), a unit of length in nuclear physics equivalent to the femtometre
- Fermi's interaction and Fermi constant, constant that gives the strength of Fermi's interaction
- Fermi energy
- Fermi gas
- Fermi liquid
- Fermi level
- Fermi hole
- Fermi point
- Fermi's golden rule
- Fermi resonance
- Fermi surface
- Fermi acceleration
- Fermi glow
Technology and engineering
- Fermi (microarchitecture), the codename for a microarchitecture developed by Nvidia
- Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
- Enrico Fermi Institute, Chicago, Illinois, US
- Fermi filter
- Fermi Linux, distributions produced by Fermilab
Nuclear reactors
- Enrico Fermi Nuclear Generating Station, Monroe, Michigan, US
- Enrico Fermi Nuclear Power Plant (Italy), Trino Vercellese, Italy
- RA-1 Enrico Fermi, a research reactor in Argentina
Mathematics
- Fermi coordinates, local coordinates that are adapted to a geodesic
- Fermi problem, estimation problem designed to teach dimensional analysis, and approximation
- Fermi paradox, typical example of a Fermi problem pertaining to extraterrestrial civilizations
Other uses
See also
- Fermilab, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
- Fermion
- Fermionic field
- Fermi–Pasta–Ulam problem
- Fermi–Dirac (disambiguation)
- Fermi–Walker transport
- Fermi–Walker differentiation
- Laura Fermi (1907–1977), Enrico Fermi's wife
- FERMIAC, an analog computer invented by Enrico Fermi
- Fermi Paradox (album), an album by Tub Ring
- List of things named after Enrico Fermi
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 11/4/2015. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.