The Pope of Physics : Enrico Fermi and the birth of the atomic age
(Book)
Author
Contributors
Hoerlin, Bettina, 1939- author.
Published
New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xi, 351 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : black & white illustrations ; 25 cm
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Published
New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2016.
Format
Book
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-333) and index.
Description
"The first full-scale biography of the Nobel Prize-winning physicist and one of the fathers of the atomic age, Enrico Fermi. Enrico Fermi is unquestionably the most famous scientist to come from Italy since Galileo, so revered that he's known as The Popeof Physics. A modest, unassuming man, Fermi was nevertheless one of the most productive and creative scientists of the twentieth century, one of the fathers of the Atomic Bomb and a Nobel Prize winner whose contributions to physics and nuclear technologylive on today, with the largest particle accelerator in the United States and the nation's most significant science and technology award both bearing his name. In this, the first major biography of Fermi in English, Gino Segre, professor of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Pennsylvania, brings this scientific visionary to life. An examination of the human dramas that touched Fermi's life as well as a thrilling history of scientific innovation in the twentieth century--including the birth of oneof its most controversial disciplines, nuclear physics--this is the comprehensive biography that Fermi deserves"--,Provided by publisher.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Segrè, G., & Hoerlin, B. (2016). The Pope of Physics: Enrico Fermi and the birth of the atomic age (First edition.). Henry Holt and Company.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Segrè, Gino and Bettina Hoerlin. 2016. The Pope of Physics: Enrico Fermi and the Birth of the Atomic Age. Henry Holt and Company.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Segrè, Gino and Bettina Hoerlin. The Pope of Physics: Enrico Fermi and the Birth of the Atomic Age Henry Holt and Company, 2016.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Segrè, Gino, and Bettina Hoerlin. The Pope of Physics: Enrico Fermi and the Birth of the Atomic Age First edition., Henry Holt and Company, 2016.
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