Horizon Information Portal

HSPLS site

eBooks/Audiobooks

Reading Program

Fermi remembered / edited by James W. Cronin.

View full image

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2004.

Fermi, Enrico, 1901-1954 -- Archives.

Nuclear physics.

0226121119 (cloth : alk. paper)

9780226121116 (cloth : alk. paper)

9780226100883 (pbk.)

022610088X (pbk.)

xi, 287 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Ch. 1. Biographical introduction -- Ch. 2. Fermi and the elucidation of matter -- Ch. 3. Letters and documents relating to the development of nuclear energy -- Ch. 4. Correspondence between Fermi and colleagues : scientific, political, personal -- Ch. 5. Research and teaching : selections from the archives -- Ch. 6. Reminiscences of Fermi's faculty and research colleagues, 1945-1954 -- Ch. 7. Reminiscences of Fermi's students, 1945-1954 -- Ch. 8. Reminiscences of students of the Fermi period, 1945-1954 -- Ch. 9. What can we learn with high energy accelerators?

"Nobel laureate and scientific luminary Enrico Fermi (1901-1954) was a pioneering nuclear physicist whose contributions to the field were numerous, profound, and lasting. Best known for his involvement with the Manhattan Project and his work at Los Alamos that led to the first self-sustained nuclear reaction and ultimately to the production of electric power and plutonium for atomic weapons, Fermi and his legacy continue to color the character of the sciences at the University of Chicago. During his tenure as professor of physics at the Institute for Nuclear Studies, Fermi attracted an extraordinary scientific faculty and many talented students - ten Nobel Prizes were awarded to faculty or students under Fermi's tutelage."

Horizon Information Portal 3.25_9884

Powered by Dynix

© 2001-2013 SirsiDynix All rights reserved.

Horizon Information Portal