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Title
Enrico Fermi: physicist.
Author
ISBN
0226744728
Imprint
Chicago, University of Chicago Press [1970]
Language
English
Description
x, 276 p. illus., ports. 23 cm.
Call Number
QC16.F47 S44 1970
System Control No.
(OCoLC)118467
Summary
Student, collaborator and lifelong friend of Enrico Fermi, Emilio Segrè presents a rich, well-rounded portrait of the scientist, his methods, intellectual history, and achievements. Explaining in nontechnical terms the scientific problems Fermi faced or solved. Enrico Fermi, Physicist contains illuminating material concerning Fermi's youth in Italy and the development of his scientific style. Emilio Segre was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1959.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-268) and index.
Formatted Contents Note
Family background and youth
Apprenticeship
Professor at Rome
Emigration and the war years
Professor at Chicago
Appendixes: 1. Letters to Enrico Persico
2. Artificial radioactivity produced by neutron bombardment
3. Physics at Columbia University
4. The development of the first chain-reacting pile.
Apprenticeship
Professor at Rome
Emigration and the war years
Professor at Chicago
Appendixes: 1. Letters to Enrico Persico
2. Artificial radioactivity produced by neutron bombardment
3. Physics at Columbia University
4. The development of the first chain-reacting pile.
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