“I remember my friend Johnny von Neumann used to say, 'with four parameters I can fit an elephant and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk.'”
Quote by Enrico Fermi
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Enrico Fermi
Italian-American physicist and Nobel Prize winner. Fermi made numerous contributions to physics, particularly in the fields of nuclear physics and particle physics. In 1938, he discovered the neutron, and in 1942, he led the construction of the Chicago Pile-1, the world's first man-made nuclear reactor. more
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