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Jay Orear
Professor Emeritus of Physics, Cornell UniversityGraduate student U. of
Chicago Sept. 1946 to June 1953 receiving Ph.D. in partic/e physics under
supervision of Enrico Fermi.Post-Ph.D. Research Associate of Enrico Fermi

June 1953 to Aug. 1954.
/nstructor and then Assistant Professor, Co/umbia University Sept. 1954 to
June 1958.
Associate to full Professor 1958 to 1995, Cornell University. Then Emeritus
Professor.
Associations with Fermi: My Ph. D. was to confirm the pion-proton phase
shifts discovered by Fermi. He was a/so the first to measure the signs of
those phase shifts. Authored "Notes on Statistics for Physicists" 1958, revised
1982 (based on Fermi conversations).
Co authored "Nuc/ear Physies" 1949 U. of Chieago Press (based on notes of

Enrico Fermi's course with A. Rosenfe/d and R. Seh/uter).Fundamenta/
Physies, John Wiley & Sons 1963 and Physies, Ma cm iIIa n, 1979 (college
introduetory textbooks with a Fermi approach). With he/p from R. Garwin and
C. Sagan organized a symposium "Memories of E. Fermi", Oet. 1991 at
Cornell University. Organized reunions of Fermi thesis students Oet.13, 1991
and Dee. 3, 1992.

Abstract: Documents about Fermi
Enrico Fermi, the mano One of the purposes of this talk is to give the
audience a feeling for Enrico Fermi, his personality, sense of humor, etc. by
making use of some of my memories plus the few recordings that are
available of him via audio tape and film. Those who have never seen Fermi
live can get some idea of what he was like from the following sources: (1) the
film THE WORLD OF ENRICO FERMI, (2) the video of the 10th anniversary
of the first nuclear chain reaction produced by SEE IT NOW of CBS TV
news, (3) the audio tape of Fermi's lecture entitled PHYSICS AT COLUMBIA
UNIVERSITY, THE GENESIS OF THE NUCLEAR ENERGY PROJECT, and
(4) Fermi's personal notes and slides on his talk as retiring president of the
American Physical Society in Jan. 1954. ! ! Items (1) and (2) contains live
speeches by Fermi. Aiso I will show quotes and TV clips from a day-Iong
symposium on Fermi held at Cornell University on Oct.14, 1991. These
speakers knew him first hand and came to similar conclusions as what Fermi
was like as a person. I will give some examples of Fermi's famous "intuition"
and his remarkable sense of humor.