Download Enrico Fermi: The Obedient Genius (Springer Biographies) by Giuseppe Bruzzaniti,Ugo Bruzzo PDF

By Giuseppe Bruzzaniti,Ugo Bruzzo

This biography explores the lifestyles and profession of the Italian physicist Enrico Fermi, that is additionally the tale of thirty years that reworked physics and without end replaced our realizing of topic and the universe: nuclear physics and basic particle physics have been born, nuclear fission used to be found, the long island undertaking was once constructed, the atomic bombs have been dropped, and the period of “big technology” began.

It will be very unlikely to seize the entire essence of this innovative interval with out first realizing Fermi, with out whom it is going to no longer were possible.

Enrico Fermi: The Obedient Genius makes an attempt to make clear all points of Fermi’s existence - his paintings, motivation, impacts, achievements, and private techniques - starting with the booklet of his first paper in 1921 via his dying in 1954. in this time, Fermi verified that he used to be certainly following within the footsteps of Galileo, excelling in his paintings either theoretically and experimentally via deepening our knowing of the Pauli exclusion precept, profitable the Nobel Prize for his discovery of the basic houses of gradual neutrons, constructing the idea of beta decay, development the 1st nuclear reactor, and taking part in a crucial function within the improvement of the atomic bomb. Interwoven with this attention-grabbing tale, the e-book info the foremost advancements in physics and gives the mandatory heritage fabric to totally take pleasure in the dramatic adjustments that have been taking place.

Also incorporated are appendices that supply a timeline of Fermi’s existence, numerous fundamental resource records from the interval, and an intensive bibliography. This e-book will enlighten an individual attracted to Fermi’s paintings or the clinical occasions that resulted in the physics revolution of the 1st 1/2 the 20 th century.

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