Fermi's 1926 Letter to Dirac Is the Original 'Cite Me Maybe'
CatAstro_Piyush · x · 2026-10-26
The shared image shows Fermi's actual 1926 letter to Dirac: after Dirac published an ideal gas theory based on Pauli's exclusion principle nearly identical to Fermi's earlier work, Fermi politely wrote "Since I suppose that you have not seen my paper, I beg to attract your attention on it." A perfect academic 'cite me maybe' moment.
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