David N. Schwartz (Author)
The definitive biography of the brilliant, charismatic, and very human physicist and innovator Enrico FermiIn 1942, a team at the University of Chicago achieved what no one had before: a nuclear chain reaction. At the forefront of this breakthrough stood Enrico Fermi. Straddling the ages of classical physics and quantum mechanics, equally at ease with theory and experiment, Fermi truly was the last man who knew everything--at least about physics. But he was also a complex figure who was a part of both the Italian Fascist Party and the Manhattan Project, and a less-than-ideal father and husband who nevertheless remained one of history's greatest mentors. Based on new archival material and exclusive interviews, The Last Man Who Knew Everything lays bare the enigmatic life of a colossus of twentieth century physics.
...MoreReview Leonardo Gariboldi (2018) Review of "The Last Man Who Knew Everything: The Life and Times of Enrico Fermi, Father of the Nuclear Age". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 425-427).
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Storia di un programma perdente, ovvero Vita effimera di illusioni teoriche
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Salvatore Esposito;
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Majorana, il numero di Avogadro e la lezione mancante nel documento Moreno
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Gino Segrè;
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Il Papa della fisica: Enrico Fermi e la nascita dell’era atomica
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Vincenzo Cioci;
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Szilard e Rasetti: due scienziati a confronto
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(2000)
The search for transuranium elements and the discovery of nuclear fission
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De Gregorio, Alberto;
(2006)
A Far-Reaching Project Behind the Discovery of Neutron-Induced Radioactivity
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Gregorio, Alberto G. de;
(2005)
Neutron Physics in the Early 1930s
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Ettore Majorana's Forgotten Publication on the Thomas-Fermi Model
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The Apocalypse Factory: Plutonium and the Making of the Atomic Age
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(2006)
“For Slow Neutrons, Slow Pay”: Enrico Fermi's Patent and the U.S. Atomic Energy Program, 1938--1953
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Battimelli, Giovanni;
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Circulation of Ideas and Migration of Scientists: Hints from the Early Times of Nuclear Physics
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Bernardini, Carlo;
Bonolis, Luisa;
(2004)
Enrico Fermi: His Work and Legacy
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Gambassi, Andrea;
(2003)
Enrico Fermi in Pisa
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Il debutto di Enrico Fermi come professore di fisica teorica
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Barbara Villone;
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La "fisica di altri tempi" dell'epoca di Fermi : il contributo torinese di Gian Carlo Wick
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Acocella, Giovanni;
Guerra, Francesco;
Leone, Matteo;
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(2007)
The Oscar D'Agostino Archives in Avellino
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