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By David N. Schwartz

ISBN-10: 0465072925

ISBN-13: 9780465072927

ISBN-10: 1549114204

ISBN-13: 9781549114205

The definitive biography of the bright, charismatic, and extremely human physicist and innovator Enrico Fermi
In 1942, a staff on the college of Chicago accomplished what nobody had ahead of: a nuclear chain response. on the leading edge of this step forward stood Enrico Fermi. Straddling the a long time of classical physics and quantum mechanics, both comfortable with conception and test, Fermi really was once the final guy who knew everything--at least approximately physics. yet he used to be additionally a fancy determine who used to be part of either the Italian Fascist occasion and the ny undertaking, and a less-than-ideal father and husband who however remained certainly one of history's maximum mentors. in accordance with new archival fabric and particular interviews, The final guy Who Knew every thing lays naked the enigmatic lifetime of a colossus of 20th century physics.

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