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Enrico Fermi – A twofold Genius between theories and experiments.

 

As part of the events organized by the 2015 Genoa Science Festival, at the Civic Museum of Natural History, an exhibition entitled “Enrico Fermi – A twofold genius between theories and experiments” organized by the Historical Museum of Physics and the Enrico Fermi Study and Research Center (Centro Fermi) in collaboration with the Italian Physical Society and with the support of the Bologna Section of the National Institute for Nuclear Physics. The exhibition, with the scientific direction of Prof. L. Cifarelli, retraces the various stages of the life of this great physicist, from the beginning, to the theoretical contributions on fermion statistics and beta decay, to the Roman period with the group in via Panisperna, to the American period with the first nuclear battery and subsequent interests in physics with accelerators and computers. An extremely interesting and engaging exhibition for the visitor thanks to its multiple multimedia solutions, to the original finds (such as the notebook of notes from the Roman period) and the various films and interviews. The Bologna section contributed to the exhibition by creating, among other things, the web page and some objects now on display (thanks to the support of the Mechanical Workshop, the General Technical Service and the Laboratory di Elettronica): a small telescope for cosmic rays with scintillators and silicon photomultipliers that turn on a LED system placed under a platform; the reproduction of FERMIAC a mechanical calculator invented by Fermi for the simulation of neutron interactions; a room of the EEE project that allows you to appreciate its construction details.