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Stamp dedicated to Enrico Fermi for the Centenary of Fermions presented at the Lincei
On 11 March, at the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei in Rome, the official ceremony was held for the presentation of the ordinary postage stamp dedicated to Enrico Fermi on the occasion of the Centenary of Fermions. The issue is part of the thematic series “The Excellence of Italian Cultural Heritage.”
The event opened with institutional greetings from the President of the Lincei, Roberto Antonelli, followed by an introduction by Massimo Inguscio, former President of the CNR and promoter of the initiative. Remarks were also delivered by Stefano Corti, Board Member of the Italian State Mint and Polygraphic Institute, Giovanni Machetti, Head of Philately at Poste Italiane, and Federico Eichberg, Chief of Staff, who conveyed the greetings of the Minister for Business and Made in Italy.
The official presentation ceremony of the stamp followed, accompanied by the signing of the commemorative card and the traditional group photo, before the eagerly awaited special cancellation, which marks the stamp’s official entry into the national collection.
The second part of the afternoon featured contributions from Professors Carlo Di Castro, Giorgio Parisi, Sandro Stringari, and Giovanni Modugno, who emphasized the importance of Fermi’s quantum statistics and its crucial impact on contemporary technologies.
Representing the CREF, Miriam Focaccia, coordinator of the Enrico Fermi Museum, took the floor. After conveying greetings from the President, Prof. Angela Bracco, she highlighted the deep connection between the institution and Fermi, reaffirming its commitment to preserving, promoting, and disseminating his scientific legacy and historical memory.
The stamp has a print run of 200,025 copies and is produced by the Italian State Mint and Polygraphic Institute using rotogravure printing; the design is by Matias Hermo.
The vignette depicts a close-up of physicist Enrico Fermi, Nobel Laureate in Physics, accompanied on the left by symbols and formulas recalling the Fermi–Dirac statistics he formulated. This theory, fundamental for describing the behaviour of fermions and their distribution across energy states, has played a decisive role in the development of modern physics and in understanding the quantum behaviour of matter, which underpins today’s innovative technologies.