Atoms in the Family: My Life with Enrico Fermi

In this absorbing account of life with the great atomic scientist Enrico Fermi, Laura Fermi tells the story of their emigration to the United States in the 1930s-part of the widespread movement of scientists from Europe to the New World that was so important to the development of the first atomic bomb. Combining intellectual biography and social history, Laura Fermi traces her husband's career from his childhood, when he taught himself physics, through his rise in the Italian university system concurrent with the rise of fascism, to his receipt of the Nobel Prize, which offered a perfect opportunity to flee the country without arousing official suspicion, and his odyssey to the United States.

Author: Laura Fermi
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 06/15/1995
Pages: 277
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.82h x 6.18w x 0.69d
ISBN13: 9780226243672
ISBN10: 0226243672
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Science & Technology

About the Author
Laura Fermi (1907-77) also wrote Atoms for the World, Mussolini, and Illustrious Immigrants: The Intellectual Migration from Europe, 1930-1941.