Atoms in the Family

My Life with Enrico Fermi

Nonfiction, Science & Nature, Science, Physics, Nuclear Physics, Biography & Memoir, Reference
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Author: Laura Fermi ISBN: 9780226149653
Publisher: University of Chicago Press Publication: October 24, 2014
Imprint: University of Chicago Press Language: English
Author: Laura Fermi
ISBN: 9780226149653
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication: October 24, 2014
Imprint: University of Chicago Press
Language: English

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.

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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.

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