Atoms in the Family

Atoms in the Family My Life With Enrico Fermi

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Publisher's Synopsis

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.

Book information

ISBN: 9780226243672
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Imprint: The University of Chicago Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 539.7092
DEWEY edition: 20
Language: English
Number of pages: 267
Weight: 474g
Height: 229mm
Width: 155mm
Spine width: 17mm