TY - BOOK AU - Schwartz,David N. TI - The last man who knew everything: the life and times of Enrico Fermi, father of the nuclear age SN - 9780465072927 AV - QC16.F46 S39 2017 U1 - 530.092B 23 PY - 2017///] CY - New York PB - Basic Books, an imprint of Perseus Books, LLC, a subsidiary of Hachette Book Group, Inc. KW - Fermi, Enrico, KW - Physicists KW - Italy KW - Biography KW - United States KW - Nuclear physicists N1 - 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 ER -