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Enrico Fermi : and the revolutions in modern physics

A biography of the Nobel Prize-winning physicist whose work led to the discovery of nuclear fission, the basis of nuclear power and the atom bomb
Print Book, English, ©1999
Oxford University Press, New York, ©1999
collective biographies
117 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
9780195117622, 019511762X
39508200
Born in a revolution
Early promise fulfilled
Road to a noble prize
Racing to a chain reaction
Los Alamos and the a-bomb
Science in Chicago, service in Washington
Great man honored and remembered