Enrico Fermi and the Nuclear Chain Reaction

Original notebook housed in Box 46, Folder 8 of the Enrico Fermi Collection in the University of Chicago Library, Special Collections Research Center.

Summary: Notebook C9, "Elementary Particles, Spring 1951," University of Chicago, unbound, 21 x 28 cm, 80 pp, contains notes for a course on elementary particles that is similar to the 1950 Silliman Lectures at Yale (Box 46, Folder 3) and to Fermi's Elementary particles book.

Original notebook housed in Box 48, Folder 4 of the Enrico Fermi Collection in the University of Chicago Library, Special Collections Research Center

Summary: Notebook E3, untitled, 1950-1954, University of Chicago, 10 x 17 cm, a loose-leaf notebook that contains alphabetized entries on various topics and data relating to the Chicago cyclotron and to the development of early high-speed counting devices. Entries include topics such as energy of activation, pions, and V-particles.

Original notebook housed in Box 46, Folder 4 of the Enrico Fermi Collection in the University of Chicago Library, Special Collections Research Center.

Summary: Notebook C1, Winter 1949, contains notes for a course on nuclear physics, similar to the course published as Nuclear physics, a course given by Enrico Fermi at the University of Chicago (Box 46, Folder 5, and Box 52, Folder 9).

Original notebook housed in Box 42, Folder 3 of the Enrico Fermi Collection in the University of Chicago Library, Special Collections Research Center.

Summary: Notebook D14, "Numerical Calculations," November 12, 1943, to May 27, 1944, no index, 20 x 27 cm, consists almost entirely of numerical calculations, without, it would seem, much theory. Some of the calculations for the years 1941-1942 can be related to exponential experiments. The quality and format of this notebook are the same as Notebook D13 (Box 42, Folder 5). It may be that D13 is a continuation of this notebook.

Original notebook housed in Box 48, Folder 2 of the Enrico Fermi Collection in the University of Chicago Library, Special Collections Research Center.

Summary: Notebook C6, "E. Fermi, Quantum Mechanics, 1939," University of Chicago, 19 x 24 cm, 115 pp, contains notes for a course on quantum mechanics, an early version of the course contained in Notebooks C4 and C5 (Box 46, Folders 3 and 5) (notebook C6 is in Box 48a).

Edited by Robert G. Sachs.
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1984
Note: This work is not a part of the Enrico Fermi Collection, but was included as a part of the project to digitize selected items from the Enrico Fermi Collection.