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Author Schwartz, David N., 1956- author.

Title The last man who knew everything : the life and times of Enrico Fermi, father of the nuclear age / David N. Schwartz.

Publication Info. New York : Basic Books, an imprint of Perseus Books, LLC, a subsidiary of Hachette Book Group, Inc., [2017]
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Description xxiii, 453 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [375]-436) and index.
Contents 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 -- "We're cookin'!" -- 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.
Summary A portrait of physicist and innovator Enrico Fermi assesses his pivotal role in achieving a nuclear chain reaction, drawing on new archival material and exclusive interviews to share insights into his complex personality, family ties and relationships with the Italian Fascist Party and the Manhattan Project.
Subject Fermi, Enrico, 1901-1954.
Fermi, Enrico, 1901-1954. (OCoLC)fst00008878
Physicists -- Italy -- Biography.
Physicists -- United States -- Biography.
Nuclear physicists -- Italy -- Biography.
Nuclear physicists -- United States -- Biography.
Nuclear physicists. (OCoLC)fst01040385
Physicists. (OCoLC)fst01063014
Italy. (OCoLC)fst01204565
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
Biographies.
ISBN 9780465072927 (hardcover)
0465072925 (hardcover)
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