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Laura Fermi (1907–1977)

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Fermi, Laura Capon
Födelsedag
1907-06-16
Avled
1977-12-26
Kön
female
Nationalitet
Italy
USA
Födelseort
Rome, Italy
Dödsort
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Bostadsorter
New York, New York, USA
Utbildning
University of Rome
Yrken
political activist
autobiographer
science writer
Relationer
Fermi, Enrico (husband)
Priser och utmärkelser
Guggenheim Fellowship (1957)
Kort biografi
Laura Fermi, née Capon, was born in Rome to an upper-middle-class Italian Jewish family, and met Enrico Fermi when she was a science student at the University of Rome. In 1928, the couple married and later had two children. In 1938, the Fermis went into exile from Italy to escape the persecution of the Fascist government and its Nazi allies. Laura's father would later be among the Italian Jews rounded up by the Nazis and killed in Auschwitz. The family traveled first to Stockholm, where Enrico Fermi received the Nobel Prize in physics, and from there emigrated to the USA, settling first in New York City. During World War II, Enrico Fermi was part of a larger group of scientists originally from Europe who worked on the development of the first nuclear bomb, known as the Manhattan Project. After the war, the family moved to Chicago, where Laura Fermi became a peace activist and clean air activist, and founded the Civic Disarmament Committee for Handgun Control. She wrote several books on science, including Galileo and the Scientific Revolution (with Gilberto Bernardini, 1961) and Illustrious Immigrants: The Intellectual Migration from Europe 1930-41 (1968). She also published an autobiography, Atoms in the Family: My Life with Enrico Fermi (1954), which became a bestseller.

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An extremely charming set of recollections by the wife of the legendary, Nobel prize winning physicist Enrico Fermi. Credit must be given to a number of lucid explanations of technical scientific topics that often rival and sometimes exceed in clarity those of the sister scientific biography by Emilio Segre.
 
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igor.kh | Sep 23, 2014 |
incl trans. of Little Balance
 
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ajapt | Dec 30, 2018 |

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Verk
12
Medlemmar
412
Popularitet
#59,116
Betyg
½ 3.7
Recensioner
3
ISBN
17
Språk
1

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