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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…
Physicists and the 1945 Decision to Drop the Bomb
Nina Byers
In 1943 fear that the German war machine might use atomic bombs was abating and among physicists another fear was taking its place - that of a postwar nuclear arms race with worldw…
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…