Unearthing Fermi's geophysics : based on Enrico Fermi's geophysics lectures of 1941 /

Unearthing Fermi's geophysics : based on Enrico Fermi's geophysics lectures of 1941 /

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Author / Creator:Segrè, Gino, author.
Imprint:Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2021.
©2021
Description:xiii, 285 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language:English
Subject:
Geophysics.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12734127
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Other authors / contributors:Stack, John (Physicist), author.
Fermi, Enrico, 1901-1954.
ISBN:9780226805146
022680514X
9780226805283
Provenance:Copy 1. Binding: Includes dust-jacket.
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:"Nobel Prize-winning physicist Enrico Fermi (1901-1954) is known for his work on experimental particle physics, quantum theory, and statistical mechanics; his contributions to the Manhattan Project during World War II; and for his particular ability to condense complicated problems into approximations for understanding and testing theory in a variety of scientific disciplines. This book is unusual for two reasons; first it is essentially a reconstructed course book from Fermi's notes by two physics professors, Gino Segrè and John Stack, including photographic facsimiles of Fermi's handwritten calculations. Second, it is on a topic, geophysics, that we do not usually associate with Fermi"--

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