All articles starting with F

Fermín López

Fermín López (Fermín López Marín), Spanish attacking midfielder born 2003 in El Campillo, plays for FC Barcelona and Spain; La Masia graduate, 2024 Olympic top scorer and gold medalist, Barcelona contract to 2031, missed the 2026 World Cup with a foot fracture.

FermiNet

FermiNet (Fermionic Neural Network) is a deep neural network from DeepMind, introduced in 2019, that represents the quantum wavefunction of many-electron atoms and molecules for accurate chemistry calculations.

Fermion

A fermion is a quantum particle with half-integer spin, such as an electron, quark, or proton, that obeys the Pauli exclusion principle and makes up matter.

Fermion doubling

Fermion doubling, also called the fermion doubling problem, is a lattice artifact where each physical fermion appears as 16 unphysical species, central to lattice QCD.

Fermionic condensate

A fermionic condensate, also called a Fermi condensate, is a superfluid phase of matter in which pairs of fermions condense, first observed in ultracold potassium-40 atoms at JILA in 2004.

Fermium

Fermium is a synthetic radioactive chemical element with symbol Fm and atomic number 100, the eighth transuranium actinide, discovered in 1952 in hydrogen bomb fallout and named after Enrico Fermi.

Fermoy

Fermoy (Mainistir Fhear Maí) is a town in east County Cork, Ireland, on the River Blackwater. Founded as a 12th-century Cistercian monastery site, the modern town was built from 1791 by John Anderson around British military barracks.

FERMT3

FERMT3 (KINDLIN3), gene on chromosome 11q13.1 encoding kindlin-3, a FERM-domain integrin activator in hematopoietic cells; biallelic mutations cause leukocyte adhesion deficiency type III with infections and severe bleeding.

Fern

Fern: vascular spore-producing plants (Polypodiopsida) with fronds, sori, and a two-stage alternation-of-generations life cycle; over 300 million years old, on every continent except Antarctica, distinct from fern allies like horsetails.

Fern (フェルン) (Frieren)

Fern (フェルン) is the human mage apprentice of Frieren in Frieren: Beyond Journey's End, raised by priest Heiter; voiced by Kana Ichinose, she passed the First-Class Mage Exam using only Zoltraak and defensive magic.

Fern allies

Fern allies is a traditional, informal grouping of spore-bearing vascular plants that are not ferns, covering whisk ferns, clubmosses, spikemosses, horsetails, and quillworts; now abandoned as polyphyletic.

Fern biogeography

Fern biogeography is the study of where ferns and lycophytes occur worldwide and how dispersal, climate, and history shape those patterns, with richness peaking in wet montane tropics.

Fern Brady

Fern Brady (Fern Marie Brady), born 1986 in Bathgate, Scotland, is a stand-up comedian, Taskmaster series 14 contestant, and author of the autism memoir Strong Female Character and Netflix special Autistic Bikini Queen.

Fern Britton

Fern Britton, English TV presenter and author; hosted Ready Steady Cook (1994-2000) and co-hosted ITV's This Morning (1999-2009) with Phillip Schofield; now a Sunday Times bestselling novelist.

Fern cultivation

Fern cultivation is the practice of growing ferns as ornamental garden or container plants; most are woodland subjects wanting shade, moisture-retentive well-drained soil, and little feeding.

Fern Hill

"Fern Hill" is a lyric poem by Dylan Thomas, first published in 1945, recalling childhood summers at a Carmarthenshire farm and ending with the loss of childhood to time.

Fern propagation

Fern propagation is the set of techniques for creating new ferns: sowing spores through a two-generation life cycle, or cloning by rhizome division, bulbils, and runners.

Fern rhizome

A fern rhizome is the fern's stem, usually creeping underground, bearing roots and fronds; in tree ferns it can form a trunk up to 20 m tall.

Fern spike

A fern spike is an abrupt, short-lived rise in fern spores in the fossil record, marking rapid recolonization of devastated land by ferns after a catastrophe.

Fern sporophyte

The fern sporophyte is the diploid, spore-bearing generation of the fern life cycle: the rooted, photosynthetic plant that grows from the fertilized egg on the gametophyte.

Oct 15, 2026

Fernald Feed Materials Production Center

The Fernald Feed Materials Production Center was a US Department of Energy uranium processing facility near Fernald, Ohio, that supplied the nuclear weapons program from 1952 to 1989.

Fernán Caballero

Fernán Caballero was the pen name of Spanish novelist Cecilia Böhl de Faber (1796–1877), who debuted with La Gaviota in 1849 and pioneered the realist novel in Spain.

Oct 10, 2026

Fernand Baldensperger

Fernand Baldensperger, who wrote poetry as Fernand Baldenne, was a French literary scholar who founded the Revue de littérature comparée in 1921 and ended his career as a Harvard emeritus professor.

Fernand Braudel

Fernand Braudel (1902-1985), French historian of the Annales school's second generation; author of The Mediterranean and the Age of Philip II (1949), theorist of the longue durée, Collège de France professor, Académie française member.

Fernand Canteloube

Fernand Canteloube (1900–1976), French road cyclist, won team gold and individual bronze in the road race at the 1920 Antwerp Olympics, then rode professionally for Thomann-Dunlop, winning the 1922 Polymultipliée and a 1923 Madrid-Santander stage.

Fernand de Morcerf

Fernand de Morcerf, born Fernand Mondego, is the Catalan fisherman in Dumas's Le Comte de Monte-Cristo who betrays Edmond Dantès, sells Ali Pasha of Janina, becomes a French count and peer, and dies by suicide after exposure.

Fernand Decanali

Fernand Decanali (Fernand Julien Decanali), French track cyclist born 7 July 1925 in Marseille, died 9 January 2017. Won 1948 London Olympic gold in men's team pursuit with Coste, Blusson, Adam; later professional with La Perle-Hutchison until 1953.

Fernand Jourdant

Fernand Louis Jourdant (1903-1956), French épée fencer from Flers; Olympic team épée gold at Los Angeles 1932 with France; silver at 1927 Vichy and 1931 Vienna; also 1932 Olympic fencing jury member.

Fernand Khnopff

Fernand Khnopff (1858–1921) was a Belgian Symbolist painter, draftsman, sculptor, and photographer whose mysterious portraits and dreamlike interiors influenced Gustav Klimt and the Vienna Secession.