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Latil, Pierre de, 1903-2001.

Enrico Fermi : the man and his theories / Pierre de Latil, translated from the French by Len Ortzen.

[1st American ed.].

New York, P.S. Eriksson [1966, ©1964]

178 pages illustrations, facsimiles, portraits 24 cm.

As a young Roman student, Enrico Fermi began studying when the first incredible explanations of atomic physics had gained acceptance. He was able to build upon this work to such an extent that he participated in all the following stages of the discovery of atomic energy. So essential and even decisive was his role that he can be regarded as responsible for its discovery and control. Pierre de Latil tells Fermi's story from those early days to his winning the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1938 to leaving Italy for America to working on the atomic bomb in the 1940s and beyond.

A Profile in science

Profile in science.

Fermi, Enrico, 1901-1954.

Physicists -- Italy -- 20th century.

Physicists -- Italy.

Biographies.

Ortzen, Len, translator.

Enrico Fermi. English

Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-173).

An allegorical description of a certain island and its inhabitants. -- Sequel to the vision of Bangor in the twentieth century, by J. S. Appleton. -- The milltillionaire, 1895, by M. Auburré-Hovorré. -- To whom this may come, by E. Bellamy. -- Dream of a free-trade paradise, by C. Elder. -- Three hundred years hence, by M. Griffith. -- A vision of Bangor in the twentieth century, by E. Kent. -- The Midas plague, by F. Pohl. -- Equality -- a political romance, by J. Reynolds. -- The coup d'état of 1961, by H. D. Sedgwick. -- The curious republic of Gondour, by M. Twain.

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