The Last Man Who Knew Everything: The Life and Times of Enrico Fermi, Father of the Nuclear Age. By David Schwartz. Basic Books; 451 pages; $35 and £27.99. JUST before daybreak on July 16th 1945 ...

Authors looking to mine science history can find no richer lode than physics in the early- to mid-20th century. New subatomic discoveries and the groundbreaking theories of relativity and quantum ...

The Nobel Prize winning physicist Enrico Fermi at a blackboard. Fermi, born in Italy, created the first sustained nuclear reaction in a squash court at the University ...

Two substantial biographies shed new light on the scientific breakthroughs that led to nuclear weapons and the massive organizational effort required to get the bombs ready to use in time during World ...

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A new book edited by the University of Chicago's James Cronin describes the many-faceted scientific legacies of Nobel laureate Enrico Fermi, whose contributions to 20th-century physics are perhaps ...

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The Last Man Who Knew Everything: The Life and Times of Enrico Fermi, Father of the Nuclear Age by David N. Schwartz. Basic Books, 2017 ($35) No one can know everything, but Enrico Fermi might have ...

In 1942 Enrico Fermi led a team of scientists at the University of Chicago in creating the world’s first man made nuclear reactor, Chicago Pile 1, and first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction, ...