The Pope of Physics : Enrico Fermi and the Birth of the Atomic Age (Hardcover)

from Karen.Helfrick

I won an Arc of this book from Librarything's Early Readers group. This biography describes a man who helped shape the modern age, and along with that it describes the turbulent times that shaped the man. I throughly enjoyed reading this and would recommend it to anyone interested in science or n...

from gdemange

The authors have written a very complete and detailed accounting of Enrico Fermi's life which extended from 1901 to till his death in 1954. It is a wonderful biography of a man with an intellect similar to Newton or Einstein and able to discern and calculate previously unknown facts of physics. H...

from libri_amor

In "The Pope of Physics" Gino Segre and Bettina Hoerlin have created an imminently readable biography of one of the true greats of 20th Century physics. Segre and Hoerlin do an excellent job of weaving just enough of the physics science for an appreciation of this age of discovery in the quantum ...

from RickLA

This biography of Enrico Fermi is extremely detailed and comprehensive. It takes us through the entire life of this amazingly talented scientist. Even though I have a strong scientific background, I did not know how important Fermi was. Indubitably of genius status, he ranked with the greatest sc...

from tungsten_peerts

This is a brisk and exciting biography of a man who was central to many of the advances in mid-20th century physics. Given the scope of Fermi's scientific achievements, I am surprised that this is also the FIRST biography of him. Segre and Hoerlin have done an outstanding job of compressing their...