Atoms in the family : my life with Enrico Fermi /
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| Author / Creator: | Fermi, Laura. |
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| Imprint: | [Los Angeles, Calif.] : Tomash Publishers ; [Woodbury, N.Y.] : American Institute of Physics, c1987. |
| Description: | 267 p., [24] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The History of modern physics, 1800-1950 ; v. 9 History of modern physics, 1800-1950 ; v. 9. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3164566 |
Table of Contents:
- List of Illustrations
- Part I. Italy
- 1. First Encounters
- 2. The Times before We Met
- 3. The Times before We Met--Continued
- 4. Birth of a School
- 5. Beacute;beacute; Peugeot
- 6. Early Married Years
- 7. Mr. North and the Academies
- 8. A Summer in Ann Arbor
- 9. Work
- 10. South American Interlude
- 11. An Accidental Discovery
- 12. How Not To Raise Children
- 13. November 10, 1938
- 14. Departure
- Part II. America
- 15. The Process of Americanization
- 16. Some Shapes of Things To Come
- 17. An Enemy Alien Works for Uncle Sam
- 18. Of Secrecy and the Pile
- 19. Success
- 20. Site Y
- 21. A Bodyguard and a Few Friends
- 22. Life on the Mesa
- 23. The War Ends
- 24. Exit Pontcorvo
- 25. A New Toy: The Giant Cyclotron
- Acknowledgments