4 papers
Women in Physics in Fermi's Time
Nina Byers
Enrico Fermi lived from 1901 to 1954, a period of great progress in physics and a period in which opportunities for women to study and work in institutions of higher learning incre…
Fermi and Szilard
Nina Byers
Enrico Fermi and Leo Szilard worked together at Columbia in 1939-40, just after nuclear fission was discovered, to ascertain the feasibility of a nuclear chain reaction, and then o…
E. Noether's Discovery of the Deep Connection Between Symmetries and Conservation Laws
Nina Byers
Emmy Noether proved two deep theorems, and their converses, on the connection between symmetries and conservation laws. Because these theorems are not in the mainstream of her scho…
Threshold production of charmed and B mesons in e+e- annihilation
Nina Byers
A simple extension of the QCD inspired potential model which includes dynamical quarks first proposed by Eichten et al. is remarkably successful in accounting both for the observed…