ENRICO FERMI

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Come Fermi, come Teller, yes, come Einstein too,
Please give us a theory for pi and for mu.
... ... ... and explain the nuclear glue.
      -- a note on Eckhart Hall bulletin board, University of Chicago, ca. 1949.


Whoever remembers the rest of this doggerel, please email me:   kins@bayarea.net
   
Fermi, Laura: Atoms in the Family: My Life with Enrico Fermi
Segre, Emilio: Enrico Fermi, Physicist
Telegdi, Valentine L.: Physics Today (June 2002), "Enrico Fermi in America"
Enrico Fermi and Robert A. Schluter, Notes on Quantum Mechanics: A Course Given at the Univ. of Chicago
Enrico Fermi, Thermodynamics



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