Pope of Physics: Enrico Fermi and the Birth of the Atomic Age | Gino Segre, Bettina Hoerlin, Gino Segrae
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 was nevertheless one of the most productive and creative scientists of the twentieth century, a Nobel Prize winner whose contributions to physics and nuclear technology live on today, with the largest particle accelerator in the United States and the nation s most significant science and technology awards both bearing his name. In this revealing new book, Gino Segre and Bettina Hoerlin bring this scientific visionary to life. An examination of the human dramas that touched Fermi s life as well as a thrilling history of scientific innovation in the twentieth century including the birth of one of its most controversial disciplines, nuclear physics-- this is the comprehensive biography that Fermi deserves."
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