Enrico Fermi: His Work and Legacy Book

Commemoration of Enrico Fermi (Edoardo Amaldi).- Commemoration of Enrico Fermi (Enrico Persico).- Enrico Fermi and Italian physics (Franco Rasetti).- Enrico Fermi and solid state physics (Franco Bassani).- Fermi's statistics (Giorgio Parisi).- Classical mechanics and the quantum revolution in Fermi's early works (Giovanni Gallavotti).- On the adiabatic invariants (Tullio Levi-Civita).- Fermi's coordinates and the principle of equivalence (Bruno Bertotti).- Fermi and quantum electrodynamics (Marcello Cini).-Weak interactions (Nicola Cabibbo).- Nuclear physics from the nineteen thirties to the present day (Ugo Amaldi).- The birth of nuclear energy: Fermi's pile (Carlo Salvetti).- From the Chicago Pile 1 to the next-generation reactors (Augusto Gandini).- Reactors and nuclear technology: development in the world (Maurizio Cumo).- The scientific legacy of Fermi in particle physics (Maurice Jacob and Luciano Maiani).- Enrico Fermi's contributions to non-linear systems: the influence of an unpublished article (Massimo Falcioni and Angelo Vulpiani).- Fermi's last lessons (Renato Angelo Ricci).- Enrico Fermi's scientific work (Lisa Bonolis).- Bibliography.- Index.