The last man who knew everything : the life and times of Enrico Fermi, father of the nuclear age
Item details
- ISBN: 9780465072927
- ISBN: 0465072925
- ISBN: 9780465093120
- ISBN: 0465093124
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Physical Description:
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xxiii, 453 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Basic Books, an imprint of Perseus Books, LLC, a subsidiary of Hachette Book Group, Inc., 2017.
- Copyright: ©2017
Contents / Notes
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 375-436) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Part one: Becoming Fermi. Prodigy ; Pisa ; Germany and Holland ; Quantum breakthroughs ; Of geckos and men -- Part two: The Rome years. Family life ; The Rome School ; Beta rays ; Goldfish ; Physics as soma ; The Nobel Prize -- Part three: The Manhattan Project. 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 -- Part four: The Chicago years. Return to Chicago ; In the public eye ; A patent fight ; Brilliant teacher, beloved mentor ; Travels abroad ; Home to die ; Fermi's legacy. |
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Flint River Regional Library System: Peachtree City Library |
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