Link Centre Dictionary

fermion

fer·mion

UK/ˈfɜːmɪɒn/ uncommon

noun

1.

any particle that obeys Fermi-Dirac statistics and is subject to the Pauli exclusion principle

Origin

From Fermi + -on. Named after Italian-American physicist Enrico Fermi. Coined by English physicist Paul Dirac in 1945 in a lecture titled "Developments in Atomic Theory".

Phrases

  • Dirac fermion
  • fermionic field
  • heavy fermion
  • Majorana fermion
  • Weyl fermion

Related words

Broader terms

Narrower terms

WordNet 2.1 (Princeton University). Wiktionary (CC BY-SA). WordNet 2.1 Copyright Princeton University. All rights reserved. Wiktionary content is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike Licence.