Download or read book The Pope of Physics written by Gino Segrè and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-10-18 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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 whose contributions to physics and nuclear technology live on today, with the largest particle accelerator in the United States and the nation's most significant science and technology award both bearing his name. In this, the first major biography of Fermi in English, Gino Segrae ... brings this scientific visionary to life"--