The last man who knew everything: the life and times of Enrico Fermi, father of the nuclear age

Author:	Schwartz, David N., 1956- author. times of Enrico Fermi, father of the nuclear age / David N. Schwartz.
Edition:	First edition.
Description:	xxiii, 453 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
LC Call No.:	QC16.F46S39 2017
Dewey No.:	530.092 B 23
ISBN:	9780465072927 (hardcover)
	0465072925 (hardcover)
	9780465093120 (ebook)
	0465093124 (ebook)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
	Prodigy -- Pisa -- Germany and Holland -- Quantum breakthroughs -- Of geckos and men -- Family life -- The Rome School -- Beta rays -- Goldfish -- Physics as soma -- The Nobel Prize -- The new world -- Splitting the atom -- Fermi meets the Navy -- Piles of graphite -- The move to Chicago -- Squash courts -- Xenon-135 -- On a mesa -- An unholy Trinity -- Return to Chicago -- In the public eye -- A patent fight -- Brilliant teacher, beloved mentor -- Travels abroad -- Home to die -- Fermi's legacy.
Subjects:	Fermi, Enrico, 1901-1954.
	Physicists -- Italy -- Biography.
	Physicists -- United States -- Biography.
	Nuclear physicists -- Italy -- Biography.
	Nuclear physicists -- United States -- Biography.

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