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Fermi Tales

DEC 01, 2002

DOI: 10.1063/1.4796636

Richard H. Pratt

The table on page 41 of the June 2002 issue of Physics Today lists the courses that Enrico Fermi taught at the University of Chicago. However, it omits his last course, Quantum Mechanics (Physics 341–342), which he taught in the winter and spring of 1954. I still have my set of Fermi’s mimeographed handwritten notes that Valentine Telegdi mentions. Those notes were later published as Notes on Quantum Mechanics by the University of Chicago Press in 1961, with a second edition in 1995.

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Richard H. Pratt. (rpratt@pitt.edu) University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US .

© 2002. American Institute of Physics

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Volume 55, Number 12

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