Atoms in the Family: My Life with Enrico Fermi
by Laura Fermi
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In this absorbing account of life with the great atomic scientist Enrico Fermi, Laura Fermi tells the story of their emigration to the United States in the 1930s-part of the widespread movement of scientists from Europe to the New World that was so important to the development of the first atomic bomb. Combining intellectual biography and social history, Laura Fermi traces her husband's career from his childhood, when he taught himself physics, through his rise in the Italian university show more system concurrent with the rise of fascism, to his receipt of the Nobel Prize, which offered a perfect opportunity to flee the country without arousing official suspicion, and his odyssey to the United States. show lessTags
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An extremely charming set of recollections by the wife of the legendary, Nobel prize winning physicist Enrico Fermi. Credit must be given to a number of lucid explanations of technical scientific topics that often rival and sometimes exceed in clarity those of the sister scientific biography by Emilio Segre.
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- Enrico Fermi; Laura Fermi
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- English, Italian, Russian
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