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Control # 1 2016013398
Control # Id 3 DLC
Date 5 20161230124142.0
Fixed Data 8 160323t20162016nyu b 001 0beng c
LC Card 10    $a 2016013398
ISBN 20    $a9781627790055
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ISBN 20    $a9781627790062
ISBN 20    $a1627790063
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LC Call 50 00 $aQC16.F46$bS44 2016
Dewey Class 82 00 $a530.092$aB$223
ME:Pers Name 100 $aSegrè, Gino,$eauthor.
Title 245 14 $aThe pope of physics :$bEnrico Fermi and the birth of the atomic age /$cGino Segrè and Bettina Hoerlin.
Edition 250    $aFirst edition.
Projectd Pub 263    $a1611
Tag 264 264  1 $aNew York :$bHenry Holt and Company,$c[2016]
Tag 264 264  4 $cÃ2016
Phys Descrpt 300    $a302 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations ;$c22 cm
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Note:Bibliog 504    $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Note:Content 505 $aFamily roots -- The LittleMmatch (Il Piccolo Fiammifero) -- Leaning in: physics and Pisa -- Student days -- The young protégé -- The summer of 1924 -- Florence -- Quantum leaps -- Enrico and Laura -- The boys of Via Panisperna -- The Royal Academy -- Crossing the Atlantic -- Bombarding the neutron -- Decay -- The neutron comes to Rome -- The rise and fall of the boys -- Transitions -- Stockholm calls -- Fission -- News travels -- Chain reaction -- The race begins -- New Americans and the birth of the pile -- The sleeping giant -- Chicago bound -- Critical pile (CP-1) -- The day the atomic age was born -- The Manhattan project: a three-legged stool -- Signor Fermi becomes mister farmer -- Götterdämmerung -- The hill -- "No acceptable alternative" -- Aftershock -- Goodbye, Mr. Farmer -- Physicist with a capital 'F' -- The Fermi method -- The super -- Circling back -- Summer of '54 -- Farewell to the navigator.
Abstract 520    $a"The first full-scale biography of the Nobel Prize-winning physicist and one of the fathers of the atomic age, Enrico Fermi. Enrico Fermi is unquestionably the most famous scientist to come from Italy since Galileo, so revered that he's known as The Pope of Physics. A modest, unassuming man, Fermi was nevertheless one of the most productive and creative scientists of the twentieth century, one of the fathers of the Atomic Bomb and a Nobel Prize winner whose contributions to physics and nuclear technology live on today, with the largest particle accelerator in the United States and the nation's most significant science and technology award both bearing his name. In this, the first major biography of Fermi in English, Gino Segre, professor of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Pennsylvania, brings this scientific visionary to life. An examination of the human dramas that touched Fermi's life as well as a thrilling history of scientific innovation in the twentieth century--including the birth of one of its most controversial disciplines, nuclear physics--this is the comprehensive biography that Fermi deserves"--$cProvided by publisher.
Subj:Pers 600 10 $aFermi, Enrico,$d1901-1954.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aPhysicists$vBiography.
AE:Pers Name 700 $aHoerlin, Bettina,$d1939-$eauthor.
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