Collected Papers of Enrico Fermi, Vol. 2, United States, 1939-45
By Enrico Fermi.
Description
Enrico Fermi (ĕnrē´kō fĕr´mē), 1901-54, American physicist, b. Italy. He studied at Pisa, Göttingen, and Leiden, and taught physics at the universities of Florence and Rome. He contributed to the early theory of beta decay and the neutrino and to quantum statistics. For his experiments with neutrons he was awarded the 1938 Nobel Prize in Physics. Fermi's wife, Laura, was Jewish, and the family did not return to Fascist Italy after the journey to Stockholm to receive the Nobel award, but continued on to the United States. Fermi was professor of physics at Columbia Univ....
ISBN(s)
0226243605, 9780226243603
