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Author Cooper, Dan.

Title Enrico Fermi : and the revolutions of modern physics / Dan Cooper.

Publication Info. New York : Oxford University Press, [1998]
©1998

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Description 1 online resource (117 pages) : illustrations.
age Children
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Oxford portraits in science
Oxford portraits in science.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 113-114) and index.
Contents Born in a revolution -- Early promise fulfilled -- Road to a noble prize -- Racing to a chain reaction -- Los Alamos and the a-bomb -- Science in Chicago, service in Washington -- Great man honored and remembered.
Summary A biography of the Nobel Prize-winning physicist whose work led to the discovery of nuclear fission, the basis of nuclear power and the atom bomb.
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Subject Fermi, Enrico, 1901-1954.
Fermi, Enrico, 1901-1954.
Fermi, Enrico, 1901-1954.
Fermi, Enrico, 1901-1954.
Nuclear physics -- History -- Juvenile literature.
Nuclear physics.
History.
Physicists -- Italy -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Physicists.
Italy.
Nuclear physicists.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Electronic books.
History.
Juvenile works.
Biographies.
Added Author Fermi, Enrico, 1901-1954.
Other Form: Print version: Cooper, Dan. Enrico Fermi. New York : Oxford University Press, ©1998 019511762X (DLC) 98034471 (OCoLC)39508200
ISBN 9780198027836 (electronic book)
0198027834 (electronic book)