Enrico Fermi, Physicist

304 Pages·1970·59.458 MB·English

by  Emilio Segre

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THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS
Chicago and London
International Standard Book Number: 0-226-74472-8
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 71-107424
The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 60637
The University of Chicago Press, Ltd., London
© 1970 by The University of Chicago
All rights reserved
Published 1970
Printed in the United States of America
Contents
List of Illustrations / vii
Preface / ix
1 / Family Background and Youth / 1
2 / Apprenticeship / 25
3 / Professor at Rome / 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
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