Enrico Fermi The Obedient Genius /

• Main Author: Bruzzaniti, Giuseppe (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Series: Springer Biographies
• Subjects: Mathematics.; History.; Mathematical physics.; Quantum physics.; Elementary particles (Physics).; Quantum field theory.; Physics.; History of Mathematical Sciences.; Mathematical Physics.; History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics.; Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory.; Quantum Physics.

This biography explores the life and career of the Italian physicist Enrico Fermi, which is also the story of thirty years that transformed physics and forever changed our understanding of matter and the universe: nuclear physics and elementary particle physics were born, nuclear fission was discove...

Table of Contents:

• Preface to the English Edition
• Preface to the Italian Edition
• The Last Galilean
• 20th Century Physics: 1900-1933
• Enrico Fermi: Research Itineraries 1921-1933
• 20th Century Physics: 1934-1954
• Enrico Fermi: Research Itineraries 1934-1954
• Epilogue
• Appendix A: Chronologies
• Appendix B: Documents
• Appendix C: Background Material
• Appendix D: Enrico Fermi's Bibliography.