| Series |
Nobel Prize-winning scientists
Nobel Prize-winning scientists. ^A600015
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| Contents |
What's inside an atom? -- Early years -- Preparing for a career -- Bringing modern physics to Italy -- Experiments on atomic nuclei -- Momentous changes -- The war effort -- Chicago and Los Alamos -- After the war -- Fermi's legacy. |
| Abstract |
Profiles the Nobel Prize-winning scientist who dominated the field of physics, made important discoveries in the fields of atomic behavior leading to the use of nuclear power as a new source of energy, as well as the development of the first atomic bomb. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 125) and index. |
| LCCN | 2003001283 |
| ISBN | 0766021777 (lib. bdg.) |
| Stock number | 1228757 QBI |
