Enrico Fermi's View of Identical Particles. Fermi and Identical Particles 2
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In this paper I discuss Enrico Fermi’s view of identical particles, taking a lecture that he gave in 1933 as a starting point. Fermi used his lecture as a basis for a paper that was published in 1934: the paper is in italian and is not easily accessible to a wide audience, and for this reason its translation is also given in a section of the present paper. PACS numbers: 01.65.+g Fermi and identical particles 2
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