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From Fermi to Dirac

Posted in History, The Universe and Stuff with tags , , on October 25, 2026 by telescoper

I was just reminded that exactly 100 years ago today, Enrico Fermi wrote this famous letter to Paul Dirac:

That’s why we call them Fermi-Dirac Statistics!

P.S. It seems that Enrico Fermi wasn’t too handy with a typewriter.