Concept information
Preferred term
fermion
Definition(s)
- A fermion is any particle of matter that is characterized by spin in odd half-integer quantum units (1/2, 3/2, 5/2, etc). Fermions were named by Paul Dirac in 1947 after the Italian physicist Enrico Fermi. They obey the Pauli exclusion principle and Fermi-Dirac statistics, and have antisymmetric wavefunctions. (Encyclopedia of Science, by David Darling, https://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/F/fermion.html)
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URI
http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/MDL-H4ZGVMSV-6
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