"November 2017"--Title page verso. NMAH copy purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. "In December 1942, a team at the University of Chicago achieved a milestone in human history: a ...
A biography of Enrico Fermi, the scientist who discovered the chain reaction in nuclear physics. Follows his career in Italy and later in America, and his meetings with other scientists, including Mme ...