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Turning points A meeting with Enrico Fermi

Freeman Dyson1

  1. Freeman Dyson is at the Institute for Advanced Study, Einstein Drive, Princeton, New Jersey 08540, USA.

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How one intuitive physicist rescued a team from fruitless research.

One of the big turning points in my life was a meeting with Enrico Fermi in the spring of 1953. In a few minutes, Fermi politely but ruthlessly demolished a programme of research that my students and I had been pursuing for several years.

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