num_pages: 276
description: Student, collaborator and lifelong friend of Enrico Fermi, Emilio Segrè presents a rich, well-rounded portrait of the scientist, his methods, intellectual history, and achievements. Explaining in nontechnical terms the scientific problems Fermi faced or solved, Enrico Fermi, Physicist contains illuminating material concerning Fermi's youth in Italy and the development of his scientific style.Emilio Segre was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1959.
language: English
title: Enrico Fermi, Physicist
titlecomplete: Enrico Fermi, Physicist
genres: History, Science, History Of Science, Physics, Biography
ratings_count: 59
publisher: University of Chicago Press