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Gino Segrè
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Pub. Date
2016
Description
"The first full-scale biography of the Nobel Prize-winning physicist and one of the fathers of the atomic age, Enrico Fermi. Enrico Fermi is unquestionably the most famous scientist to come from Italy since Galileo, so revered that he's known as The Pope of Physics. A modest, unassuming man, Fermi was nevertheless one of the most productive and creative scientists of the twentieth century, one of the fathers of the Atomic Bomb and a Nobel Prize winner...
2) Ordinary geniuses: Max Delbrück, George Gamow, and the origins of genomics and big bang cosmology
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Description
"A biography of two maverick scientists whose intellectual wanderlust kick-started modern genomics and cosmology. Max Delbruck and George Gamow, the so-called ordinary geniuses of Segrè's third book, were not as famous or as decorated as some of their colleagues in midtwentieth-century physics, yet these two friends had a profound influence on how we now see the world, both on its largest scale (the universe) and its smallest (genetic code). Their...
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Pub. Date
c2002
Description
"Of the three fundamental methods of measurement -- time, length, and temperature -- Gino Segre is convinced that temperature is not only the most subtle but also the most revealing. In this engaging, insightful book, Segre, a distinguished theoretical physicist, makes his lifelong fascination with temperature the organizing theme of a wide-ranging journey through science, history, and culture" --Jacket.
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