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After what or whom are the two classes of elementary particles named?

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After what or whom are the two classes of elementary particles named?
posted Jun 26, 2020 by Aastha Joshi

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Two physicists (one Indian, one Italian)
The two classes are fermions (named for Italian physicist Enrico Fermi) and bosons (named for Indian physicist Satyendra Nath Bose). Both classes were named by English theoretical physicist Paul Dirac.

answer Jun 27, 2020 by Tapesh Kulkarni
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