The last man who knew everything : the life and times of Enrico Fermi, father of the nuclear age / D...
The last man who knew everything : the life and times of Enrico Fermi, father of the nuclear age / D...
The last man who knew everything : the life and times of Enrico Fermi, father of the nuclear age / David N. Schwartz.
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Publisher
New York : Basic Books, an imprint of Perseus Books, LLC, a subsidiary of Hachette Book Group, Inc., 2017.
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G 2017/6923
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Language
English
Physical Description
Physical content
xxiii, 453 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
Part one: Becoming Fermi. Prodigy ; Pisa ; Germany and Holland ; Quantum breakthroughs ; Of geckos and men -- Part two: The Rome years. Family life ; The Rome School ; Beta rays ; Goldfish ; Physics as soma ; The Nobel Prize -- Part three: The Manhattan Project. The New World ; Splitting the atom ;...
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Publisher
New York : Basic Books, an imprint of Perseus Books, LLC, a subsidiary of Hachette Book Group, Inc., 2017.
Edition
First edition.
Date Published
2017.
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Summary
"In December 1942, a team at the University of Chicago achieved a milestone in human history: a nuclear chain reaction. At the forefront of this breakthrough stood Enrico Fermi, the father of the nuclear age. But as David N. Schwartz shows in this groundbreaking biography, Fermi's impact goes well beyond this epochal event. With his theory of beta...
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The last man who knew everything : the life and times of Enrico Fermi, father of the nuclear age / David N. Schwartz.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 375-436) and index.
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©2017
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G 2017/6923
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74VKVGR5KoAM
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVGR5KoAM
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ISBN
9780465072927
DDC
530.092
MMS ID
991024152417002626
