Book ID: CBB000600000

Enrico Fermi: His Work and Legacy (2004)

unapi

Bernardini, Carlo (Editor)
Bonolis, Luisa (Editor)


Società Italiana di Fisica


Publication Date: 2004
Physical Details: xii + 410 pp.; ill.; index; bibl.
Language: English

Description With nineteen essays. Includes discussion of the history of nuclear and quantum physics, reactor technology around the world, and various aspects of Fermi's work.


Reviewed By

Review Stuewer, Roger H. (2006) Review of "Enrico Fermi: His Work and Legacy". Physics in Perspective (p. 104). unapi

Citation URI
https://data.isiscb.org/isis/citation/CBB000600000/

Similar Citations

Chapter Silvio Bergia; (2009)
Storia di un programma perdente, ovvero Vita effimera di illusioni teoriche (/isis/citation/CBB966787922/)

Book Giuseppe Bruzzaniti; (2016)
Enrico Fermi: The Obedient Genius (/isis/citation/CBB951048608/)

Book Farmelo, Graham; (2009)
The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom (/isis/citation/CBB001021272/)

Book Andrew Whitaker; (2016)
John Stewart Bell and Twentieth-Century Physics: Vision and Integrity (/isis/citation/CBB662743037/)

Book Schewe, Phillip F.; (2013)
Maverick Genius: The Pioneering Odyssey of Freeman Dyson (/isis/citation/CBB001213744/)

Book Cronin, James W.; (2004)
Fermi Remembered (/isis/citation/CBB000650375/)

Article Acocella, Giovanni; Guerra, Francesco; Robotti, Nadia; (2004)
Enrico Fermi's Discovery of Neutron-Induced Artificial Radioactivity: The Recovery of His First Laboratory Notebook (/isis/citation/CBB000641759/)

Article Wittje, Roland; (2007)
Nuclear Physics in Norway, 1933--1955 (/isis/citation/CBB000850202/)

Article Zaghloul, M. R.; (2011)
Inconsistency in Fermi's Probability of the Quantum States (/isis/citation/CBB001251952/)

Chapter Barbara Villone; (2009)
La "fisica di altri tempi" dell'epoca di Fermi : il contributo torinese di Gian Carlo Wick (/isis/citation/CBB952090767/)

Article Goodstein, Judith R.; (2001)
A Conversation with Franco Rasetti (/isis/citation/CBB000102529/)

Book Gino Segrè; Bettina Hoerlin; (2017)
Il Papa della fisica: Enrico Fermi e la nascita dell’era atomica (/isis/citation/CBB512699130/)

Authors & Contributors
Hoerlin, Bettina
David N. Schwartz
Villone, Barbara
Zaghloul, M. R.
Wittje, Roland
Whitaker, Andrew
Journals
Physics in Perspective
Science in Context
Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
European Physical Journal H
Publishers
Luigi Pellegrini Editore
Basic Books
Raffaello Cortina Editore
University of Chicago Press
Thomas Dunne Books
Springer-Verlag
Concepts
Physics
Atomic, nuclear, and particle physics
Biographies
Quantum mechanics
Particles (nuclear physics)
Science and politics
People
Fermi, Enrico
Dirac, Paul Adrien Maurice
Wick, Gian Carlo
Schwinger, Julian Seymour
Dyson, Freeman John
Rasetti, Franco
Time Periods
20th century
21st century
20th century, early
Places
Italy
Turin (Italy)
Argentina
United States
Norway
Germany
Institutions
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (United States)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT
Comments

Be the first to comment!

{{ comment.created_by.username }} on {{ comment.created_on | date:'medium' }}

Log in or register to comment