The Pope of Physics : Enrico Fermi and the birth of the atomic age / Gino Segrè and Bettina Hoerlin.

"The first full-scale biography of the Nobel Prize-winning physicist and one of the fathers of the atomic age, Enrico Fermi. Enrico Fermi is unquestionably the most famous scientist to come from Italy since Galileo, so revered that he's known as The Pope of Physics. A modest, unassuming man, Fermi w...

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Main Authors:	Segrè, Gino (Author), Hoerlin, Bettina, 1939- (Author)
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2016.
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Fermi, Enrico, > 1901-1954. Physicists > Italy > Biography. Physicists > United States > Biography. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Science & Technology. HISTORY / United States / 20th Century. SCIENCE / Physics / Nuclear. Biographies.
Genre:	Biography. Biographies.
Physical Description:	xi, 351 pages, 8 unnumbered plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Format:	Book