Enrico Fermi, Physicist

✍ Scribed by Emilio Segre

• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Year: 1970
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 304
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Student, collaborator and lifelong friend of Enrico Fermi, Emilio Segrè presents a rich, well-rounded portrait of the scientist, his methods, intellectual history, and achievements. Explaining in nontechnical terms the scientific problems Fermi faced or solved, Enrico Fermi, Physicist contains illuminating material concerning Fermi's youth in Italy and the development of his scientific style.Emilio Segre was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1959.

✦ Table of Contents

List of Illustrations / vii
Preface / ix
1 / Family Background and Youth / 1
2 / Apprenticeship / 25
3 / Professor atRome / 46
4 / Emigration and the War Years / 101
5 / Professor at Chicago / 156
APPENDIXES
1 / Letters to Enrico Persico / 189
2 / Artificial Radioactivity Produced by Neutron Bombardment / 214
3 / Physics at Columbia University / 222
4 / The Development of the First Chain-Reacting Pile / 231
Notes / 240
Bibliography / 251
Index / 269

✦ Subjects

History of Physics