Enrico Fermi had to cajole his friend Ettore Majorana ... Indeed, when, in 1928, Paul Dirac discovered 1 the theoretical framework for describing spin-½ particles, it seemed that complex numbers ...

Is there some evidence suggesting that humans are the Galaxy’s only intelligent species? Enrico Fermi thought so – and he was a pretty smart guy. Could he be right? In 1950, the famous physicist made ...

Dirac cones, named after the renowned physicist Paul Dirac, are unique features found in the electronic ... These points occur at energies near the Fermi level, and they represent the crossing-points ...