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Giulio Maltese
Is with Ibm as a Research staff member working on automatic speech
recognition. Sin ce 1987 he has been doing research in history of science,
focussing on the history of rational mechanics, on the development of
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generai relativity, and on the history of physics in Italy in the 20 century.
As a contract professor he has given courses on history of mechanics at
the universities of Genoa and Rome ("La Sapienza''). He has a/so given
courses and seminars on the foundations of mechanics and of
electrodynamics. He is a member of the Group for the history of physics at
the Oepartment of physics of "La Sapienza" University of Rome; of the
Italian Society of Physics, and of the Italian Societies for the History of
Science and for the History of Physics and Astronomy. He authored three
books on the history of mechanics and several papers on various topics
concerning the history of physics. He is current/y focussing on Enrico

Fermi's role in the development of physics in the Fotties and the Fifities
during Fermi's stay in the United States (1939-1954).

Abstract: Enrico Fermi and the Birth of High-Energy Physics after World
Warll
The motivation of the work is to outline the influence that Fermi exerted on
the birth and the rapid growth of high-energy physics in the period 1946-
1954, after his return to Chicago from Los Alamos till his untimely death in
1954. This influence is manifold, as it ranges from Fermi's role as a founder
of the so-called "Chicago School" of physics, where many important
scientists came from, to contributions to theory, Iike his interpretation of
the Conversi, Pancini, Piccioni experiment or his and Yang's bold
hypothesis concerning the composite nature of pions.
Other areas where Fermi played a major role include the policy of science in
the post-war years and the path-breaking experimental work he did on
pion-nucleon scattering, that eventually led to the discovery of the 3-3
resonance. Fermi's influence on the development of modern physics can be
seen also in his systematic pushing towards the use of electronic
computers, which he regarded as an effective mean to help research. In the
concluding remarks Fermi's attitude as a theoretical physicist will be
discussed, and his outlook of theoretical physics will be put in the
framework of the physics as it was in the Fifties.