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.
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Posted in History, The Universe and Stuff with tags Enrico Fermi, Fermi-Dirac Statistics, Paul Dirac on October 25, 2026 by telescoper
