Enrico Fermi: Father of Atomic Power

by Sam Epstein, Raymond Burns (Illustrator), Beryl Epstein

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A biography of the Nobel prize-winning physicist who designed the first atomic piles, produced the first nuclear chain reaction, and aided in the development of the atomic bomb.

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Not as good as some of the other biographies by these two authors. Perhaps the difficulty is that Fermi was a nuclear physicist, and therefore his accomplishments are harder to explain than those of Michael Faraday. (

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Sam Epstein	—	primary author	all editions	calculated
Burns, Raymond	Illustrator	main author	all editions	confirmed
Epstein, Beryl	—	main author	all editions	confirmed

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A biography of the Nobel prize-winning physicist who designed the first atomic piles, produced the first nuclear chain reaction, and aided in the development of the atomic bomb.

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