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...Laura Fermi's book. Atoms in the Family (University of Chicago Press; $4) starts with a hike outside Rome in 1924, when she met "a short-legged young man . . . with rounded shoulders and neck craned forward." Fermi was only 22, but already a brilliant physicist. Laura, 16, considered him "pretty...
...Enrico Fermi, a Nobel Prizewinner, is one of the principal founders of modern physics. On Dec. 2, 1942, he set in operation the first nuclear reactor, thus became the Prometheus of the Atomic Age. These distinctions should be enough, but this week Fermi could claim still another: his wife is one of the most engaging biographers who ever described the private life of a great scientist...
...forgave his age and married him in 1928. On their honeymoon he tried to teach her physics, starting with Maxwell's Equations on the propagation of electromagnetic waves. He had no success, which was probably just as well. Fermi lived his professional life in the strange new world of mathematical physics; Laura did not try to follow him into his abstract jungle. She learned how to appreciate her husband in spite of quanta and nucleons...
...royalty-free use, the commission this week released the original patent on nuclear reactors which it got from Nobel Prizewinner Enrico Fermi and six other Italian scientists. Though atomic research has progressed rapidly, the patent is still basic for reactors...
...just this insistence on conformity that immigrant scientists like Einstein and Fermi, men largely responsible for building the atomic bomb, came here to escape. In alienating foreign scientists, then, America may lose this fertile source of scientific excellence. Moreover, as scholars find greater respect in Europe than here, this policy is politically unsound...