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fermion

quantum system whose wave function changes when exchanging identical instances
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Summary

fermion is a type of quantum particle[1]. fermion draws 6,392 Wikipedia views per month (type of quantum particle category, ranking #15 of 125).[2]

Key Facts

  • Named after: Enrico Fermi[3]
  • Subclass of: massive quantum particle[4]
  • Commons category: Fermions[5]
  • Opposite of: boson[6]
  • Interaction: gravity[7]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Fermions[8]
  • Spin quantum number: 1 half-integer[9]
  • Has characteristic: Fermi–Dirac statistics[10], Pauli exclusion principle[11]
  • Has superpartner: sfermion[12]
  • Named by: Paul Dirac[13]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[14]

Why It Matters

fermion has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[15] fermion is known by 41 alternative names across languages and contexts.[16]

Related Entities

Enrico Fermi Paul Dirac

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . feynmanlectures.caltech.edu. feynmanlectures.caltech.edu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [15] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [16] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 13w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
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  2. 20w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → —
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    Has characteristic → Fermi–Dirac statistics, Pauli exclusion principle
    Named by → Paul Dirac
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