old stuff:

OLD FILE record:

This has one problem holding up publication.

The translations of Fermi's articles after his first articles require someone with fluency in BOTH English AND Italian to clean up the unprofessional translations discovered during proof editing in Spring 2017, but they are good enough for historical purposes if the goal is to conclude now. The last two Italian articles which exist in translation elsewhere have been annotated to include the URL locations online.
[Individual translations may be viewed here]
Remo has no interest in paying any consultant to improve these translations, so they must remain as is.

 

These old proofs (incomplete) to which bob responded have the page range in their filename, followed by many digits.

The Fermi Collected works to compare translations with the original Italian are at:

The later Italian translations should be cleaned by someone with bilingual scientific abilities. If the project is worth doing, it is worth doing well, and only a professional can complete this job. I prefer the DJVU version of the Collected Works.

The following translations need reviewing:

FI 7 - E. Fermi: The principle of adiabatics and the systems which do not
admit angle coordinates (12) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
FI 8 - E. Fermi: Some theorems of analytical mechanics of great importance
for quantum theory (13) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
FI 9 - E. Fermi: A theorem of calculus of probability and some applications
(38b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
FI 10 - E. Fermi: Formation of images with R¨ontgen rays (7) . . . . . . . 81
FI 11 - E. Fermi: On the quantization of an ideal monatomic gas (30) . . 85

This article needs permission to be replaced by Giovanni Gallavotti's translation or we can simply give the URL of the web article in n a footnote:
FI 12 - E. Fermi: A statistical method for the determination of some
properties of the atom (43) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

fermi43-new.pdf [Gallavotti][no permission, freely available on web]

http://ricerca.mat.uniroma3.it/ipparco/pagine/deposito/2011/TF.pdf

from: http://ricerca.mat.uniroma3.it/ipparco/pagine/2011.html

 

This article exists in professional translation 1968 by Giovanni Gallavotti and in the American Journal of Physics (we could just quote both URLs as a footnote):
FI 13 - E. Fermi: An attempt at a theory of rays (80a) . . . . . . . . . 94

fermi80a-new.pdf [Gallavotti][no permission, freely available on web]
  http://ricerca.mat.uniroma3.it/ipparco/pagine/deposito/2011/FB.pdf from:
http://ricerca.mat.uniroma3.it/ipparco/pagine/2011.html


fermi80a-newer.pdf [American Journal of Physics 1968][needs permission]

For copyright issues, see this file.


  • Enrico Fermi Statistical method to determine some properties of atoms (English translation by G.Gallavotti, "Thomas-Fermi theory"), FM 14-11; SommarioThis is part of the paper "The Accademia dei Lincei to E. Fermi on the occasion of the 110th anniversary of his birthday", by E. Fiorini and G.Gallavotti, in Rendiconti Lincei (2011) 22:277-306 DOI 10.1007/s12210-011-0141-5

  • Enrico Fermi An attempt to a $\beta$ rays theory (English translation by G.Gallavotti, "Beta decay", FM 13-11; arXiv:1106.1476 Sommario This is part of the paper "The Accademia dei Lincei to E. Fermi on the occasion of the 110th anniversary of his birthday", by E. Fiorini and G.Gallavotti, in Rendiconti Lincei (2011) 22:277-306 DOI 10.1007/s12210-011-0141-5
  • AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICS. VOLUME 36,. NUMBER 12 DECEMBER 1968.
    http://aapt.scitation.org/doi/10.1119/1.1974382  full text free

     

     


    old news

    April 2017. No changes since July, 2016 except for the title page promotion of Remo Ruffini to the Editor, shifting the previous coauthor list to translators which better reflects their participation in the project, and minor changes to the wording of the preface.

    READY. But LaTeX source should be checked by your experts.


    old files transmitted to World Scientific July 2016 to EH Chionh:

    NEWFILES correcting Appendix Naming and adding two new appendix reprints updated July 8 2016:


    NEWFILES FOR ALTERED PREFACE July 4, 2016:
     
    fermi-preface-newfiles.zip [preface: typeset pdf]
    [this zip can be latexed to pdf as a stand along folder, or added to the previous files after removing "\end{document}" at the end of preface.tex]

    Windows Zip of all source files prior to July 4: fermi-and-astrophysics.zip [19MB]

    Uses LateX 2 PDF typesetting since the graphics and reprint articles are all PDF files. Presently uses \documentclass{ws-book975x65}.

    Needs some LaTeX editing to enable hyperref cross-referencing of table of contents links to chapters and sections in typeset PDF.

    Needs some LaTeX editing for the titlepage etc front matter.

    There are copyright issues to be solved to reproduce articles.

    [2007 optimistic post]

    contact bob jantzen for any questions: robert.jantzen@villanova.edu.

     

     

    Fermi and Astrophysics:
    Selected Papers with Commentaries and Translations 

    Edited by Remo Ruffini
    World Scientific, Singapore, 2018.

    [with translations from Italian to English by
    Emanuele Alesci, Donato Bini, Dino Boccaletti, Andrea Geralico, Robert T. Jantzen, Simone Mercuri and Remo Ruffini]

    SOURCE FILES

    The Fermi Collected works to compare translations with the original Italian are at:

    Titlepage, Preface and Table of Contents

    Introduction

    Fermi’s Papers of the Italian Period:


     For copyright issues, see this file. Contact bob jantzen for any questions: robert.jantzen@villanova.edu.