Enrico Fermi : physicist / Emilio Segrè.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Segrè, Emilio.

Contributor:

Zinman Atomic Energy Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Phoenix books (Chicago, Ill.) ; P468.

A Phoenix book ; P468

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fermi, Enrico, 1901-1954.

Fermi, Enrico.

Physicists--Italy--Biography.

Physicists.

Nuclear physicists.

Italy.

United States.

Physicists--United States--Biography.

Nuclear physicists--Italy--Biography.

Nuclear physicists--United States--Biography.

Genre:

Biographies.

Penn Provenance:

Zinman, Michael (donor) (Zinman copy)

Physical Description:

x, 276 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1970.

Summary:

Student, collaborator and lifelong friend of Enrico Fermi, Emilio Segrè presents a rich, well-rounded portrait of the scientist, his methods, intellectual history, and achievements. Explaining in nontechnical terms the scientific problems Fermi faced or solved. Enrico Fermi, Physicist contains illuminating material concerning Fermi's youth in Italy and the development of his scientific style. Emilio Segre was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1959.

Contents:

Family background and youth

Apprenticeship

Professor at Rome

Emigration and the war years

Professor at Chicago

Appendixes: 1. Letters to Enrico Persico

2. Artificial radioactivity produced by neutron bombardment

3. Physics at Columbia University

4. The development of the first chain-reacting pile.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-268) and index.

Local Notes:

Penn Zinman copy has dust jacket.

ISBN:

0226744728

9780226744728

0226744736

9780226744735

OCLC:

118467