List of things named after Enrico Fermi

Enrico Fermi (1901–1954), an Italian-born, naturalized American physicist, is the eponym of the topics listed below.

Physics

• 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
• Fermi–Dirac condensate
• 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 equation
• 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
• Fermi Avenue, Harwell Campus

Technology

• GeForce 400 series and GeForce 500 series, also "Fermi", the codename for a graphics card architecture developed by NVIDIA
• Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
• Enrico Fermi Nuclear Generating Station, Monroe, Michigan
• Enrico Fermi Nuclear Power Plant (Italy), Trino Vercellese, Italy
• RA-1 Enrico Fermi, Argentinian research reactor
• FERMIAC
• Fermi filter
• Fermi Linux, distributions produced Fermilab
• Fermi-Szilárd Neutronic Reactor, US patent 2,708,656

Other

• Enrico Fermi Award
• Enrico Fermi Prize
• Enrico Fermi Professorship in Physics at Columbia University
• Fermi Paradox (album), an album by Tub Ring
• Fermi Paradox, a song by Avenged Sevenfold
• Fermi Project, a philanthropic organization
• Fermi, a large lunar crater
• Fermi and Frost, a science fiction short story by Frederik Pohl with themes including the Fermi paradox
• The Fermi Paradox Is Our Business Model, a science fiction short story by Charlie Jane Anders
• 8103 Fermi (1994 BE), a main-belt asteroid
• Fermi, a metro station in Turin
• EUR Fermi, a station of the Rome Metro
• Enrico Fermi High School, a high school located in Enfield, Connecticut
• Instituto Italiano Enrico Fermi in Panama.
• Schools, squares and streets in almost all Italian towns and villages
• The Fermi's, a play about Enrico & Laura Fermi set on the last day of his life.
• Enrico Fermi School-Yonkers, NY

References