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Re:Hollywood Movie Aside, Just How Good a Physicist Was Oppe... by bigger_cheese on Friday July 21, 2023 @01:29AM (#36810312)
Other way around for me "Fermion" "Fermi-Dirac Statistics" "Fermi Energy Level" etc. There are a lot of things in physics named after Fermi not aware of anything named after Oppenheimer.
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Re:Hollywood Movie Aside, Just How Good a Physicist Was Oppe... by tedsanders on Friday July 21, 2023 @03:59AM (#36811230)
Born-Oppenheimer approximation.
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Re:Hollywood Movie Aside, Just How Good a Physicist Was Oppe... by regularfry on Friday July 21, 2023 @04:07AM (#36811291)
"Fermi estimation" has leaked out of physics into other areas too.
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