Talk:Enrico Fermi

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Volta quote

In the Legacy section, third paragraph, there is quote by(?) Fermi about(?) Volta unable to understand where the study of electricity would lead. It is unclear if Volta is mentioned working in his own (more likely, I think) laboratory or Fermi's (less likely). The quote is also unreferenced; My question is: what does the quote actually say? Can a reference be dug up? OneShot010 (talk) 15:04, 25 February 2020 (UTC)Reply

EDITED: My bad, the sentence is actually referenced. OneShot010 (talk) 15:17, 25 February 2020 (UTC)Reply

What Laura says is:Template:Quote
Hawkeye7 (discuss) 18:43, 25 February 2020 (UTC)Reply
Thank you. OneShot010 (talk) 06:42, 26 February 2020 (UTC)Reply


Great teacher

Fermi's effectiveness and impact as a teacher is attested in a vast literature, and the account is obviously based on physicists who had him as a teacher. One document (out of the several) of this kind is, famously, the 'To Fermi with Love' material prepared after Fermi's death by people from the Argonne National Laboratory, the US Atomic Energy Commission, and the American Institute of Physics, which shows more than esteem: hence, dear User:AussieWikiDan, what's the point of removing the reference based on 'NPOV violation'? --79.60.3.92 (talk) 04:42, 10 August 2020 (UTC)Reply

I noticed also the removal: forgetting for a moment the "beloved", how can be defined a teacher whose students include eight Nobel Prizes? The only problem here is to decide if the source is reliable. Alex2006 (talk) 08:48, 10 August 2020 (UTC)Reply

Scuola Normale Superiore and "laurea"

The Scuola Normale Superiore never provided a "laurea". It is so today and I have no reason to think that was different at Fermi's time. The Scuola provides a "diploma" (not a PhD) that adds to the "laurea" that is granted by the University of Pisa instead. It is only asked to the student to keep a certain average of grades at the examinations to avoid to be expelled. It is also requested a minimum grade for each examination but I am not sure about this. I think that this should be properly fixed in this article. This is very well explained at their site. --Pra1998 (talk) 08:11, 1 October 2023 (UTC)Reply