The last man who knew everything : the life and times of Enrico Fermi, father of the nuclear age / David N. Schwartz.
Publisher: New York : Basic Books, an imprint of Perseus Books, LLC, a subsidiary of Hachette Book Group, Inc., [2017]Copyright date: ©2017Description: pages cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780465072927
- 0465072925
- 530.092 B 23
- QC16.F46 S39 2017
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Prodigy -- Pisa -- Germany and Holland -- Quantum breakthroughs -- Of geckos and men -- Family life -- The Rome School -- Beta rays -- Goldfish -- Physics as soma -- The Nobel Prize -- The new world -- Splitting the atom -- Fermi meets the Navy -- Piles of graphite -- The move to Chicago -- Squash courts -- Xenon-135 -- On a mesa -- An unholy Trinity -- 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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