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By Laura Fermi

In this soaking up account of existence with the nice atomic scientist Enrico Fermi, Laura Fermi tells the tale in their emigration to the U.S. within the 1930s—part of the frequent flow of scientists from Europe to the hot global that used to be so vital to the advance of the 1st atomic bomb. Combining highbrow biography and social historical past, Laura Fermi lines her husband's occupation from his early life, whilst he taught himself physics, via his upward thrust within the Italian college process concurrent with the increase of fascism, to his receipt of the Nobel Prize, which provided an ideal chance to escape the rustic with out arousing legit suspicion, and his odyssey to the United States.

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