To Find Out More
Summer 1995
| Volume 11
| Issue 1
Fermi’s life is covered in Atoms in the Family , by his wife, Laura Fermi, and in Enrico Fermi , Physicist, by his friend and collaborator Emilio Segrè. Nuclear piles and their role in the race for an atomic bomb are described in The New World, 1939/1946 , an official Manhattan Project history by Richard G. Hewlett and Oscar Anderson, Jr. The best overall account is in Richard Rhodes’s The Making of the Atomic Bomb .
