re than 330 scholars, most of them Jewish, from Nazi Germany to the United States, including such luminaries as philosopher Martin Buber, physicist Enrico Fermi and novelist Thomas Mann. Descendents of several of those earlier scholars, along with families of other Jewish refugees, gathered recently at the

re than 330 scholars, most of them Jewish, from Nazi Germany to the United States, including such luminaries as philosopher Martin Huber, physicist Enrico Fermi and novelist Thomas Mann. Descendents of several of those earlier scholars, along with families of other Jewish refugees, gathered recently at the

sin of the proton with comparable mass, Pauli's hypothesized particle needed another name. The brilliant Italian physicist and colleague of Pauli's—Enrico Fermi— came up with a solution in 1934, changing its name to neutrino, an Ital- ian pun for "little neutron." It would take twenty-six years for Pauli's n

ated with the loss of ability to convert heat, thermal energy, into mechanical energy. Historically important and still available elementary texts by Enrico Fermi (1936), Mark Zemansky (1957) and Herbert Callen (1985), among many others, explicate clearly the formal, but far from biologically relevant, classica

resulted in unanticipated coherence rather than unpredictable disorder. Using one of the early “high speed” digital computers at Los Alamos, MANIC I, Enrico Fermi with Pasta and Ulam (1955) attempted to obtain a many-body statistical thermodynamic equilibrium analogous to heat generated noise by coupling 64 par

re than 330 scholars, most of them Jewish, from Nazi Germany to the United States, including such luminaries as philosopher Martin Buber, physicist Enrico Fermi and novelist Thomas Mann. Descendents of several of those earlier scholars, along with families of other Jewish refugees, gathered recently at the