Schwartz, David N.,  1956- <br/><br/>
The last man who knew everything :  the life and times of Enrico Fermi, father of the nuclear age / 
David N. Schwartz. 
 - pages cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780465072927 0465072925 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2017020558 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Fermi, Enrico, 1901-1954. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Physicists--Italy--Biography.<br/>Physicists--United States--Biography.<br/>Nuclear physicists--Italy--Biography.<br/>Nuclear physicists--United States--Biography.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>QC16.F46  / S39 2017 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>530.092  B