The year 2002 marked the 100th anniversary of Fermi's birth, and was celebrated in many ways, one in particular was a conference held at the International Center for Relativistic Astrophysics in Pescara, Italy. This inspired a decades long project documenting Fermi's influence in relativistic astrophysics by its director Remo Ruffini, who over the next decade organized translations into English of 14 articles selected from Fermi's early articles which appear only in Italian, translations done by members of his extended research group, among whom were Emanuele Alesci, Donato Bini, Dino Boccaletti, Andrea Geralico, Robert Jantzen, and Simone Mercuri, none of whom were professional translators.
The original Italian articles appear online at:
Enrico Fermi: Note e Memorie (Collected Papers), Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
and The University of Chicago Press, Vol. 1, 1961, Vol. 2, 1965; Volume 1 is available
on-line at:
http://www.archive.org/details/collectedpapersn007155mbp.
Both volumes are available at the Accademia dei Lincei website:
http://www.lincei.it/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=125.
The article numbering below in parentheses is from the listing in those volumes.
The list of articles are as follows:
The articles were formatted with World Scientific LaTeX macros, last dated 2017. Until these appear in some future published works, their availability here might serve some purpose.
Some analysis of Fermi's first few articles on electromagnetic mass including his famous Fermi coordinates is done here:
The historical origins of Fermi-Walker transport and Fermi coordinates and the construction of Fermi-Walker transported frames in black hole spacetimes are reviewed. For geodesics this reduces to parallel transport and these frames can be explicitly constructed using Killing-Yano tensors as shown by Marck. For accelerated or geodesic circular orbits in such spacetimes, both parallel and Fermi-Walker transported frames can be given, and allow one to study circular holonomy and related clock and spin transport effects. In particular the total angle of rotation that a spin vector undergoes around a closed loop can be expressed in a factored form, where each factor is due to a different relativistic effect, in contrast with the usual sum of terms decomposition. Finally the Thomas precession frequency is shown to be a special case of the simple relationship between the parallel transport and Fermi-Walker transport frequencies for stationary circular orbits.