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Atoms in the Family: My Life with Enrico Fermi

By Laura Fermi

Book information

Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Year
2014
ISBN
9780226149653
DOI
10.7208/9780226149653
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
19 MB (19438564 bytes)
Pages
277\297
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-15 06:44:39

Description

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 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.

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