Selected books, articles, and websites for more on Enrico Fermi
- Enrico Fermi, 1901-1954 byPublication Date: 1957
- Enrico Fermi; the man and his theories byPublication Date: 1966
- Enrico Fermi and the nuclear reactor. Unlocking the secrets of science. byPublication Date: 2003Bear, Del. : Mitchell Lane Publishers,
- The World of Enrico Fermi, parts 1 & 2 (videorecording).Publication Date: 1970Harvard Project Physics; released by Holt, Rinehart and Winston
- Fermi, Enrico. [American national biography]Publication Date: 1999v. 7, p. 842-844. New York : Oxford University Press
- "Beyond the Bomb." The University of Chicago Magazine byv.42 no.2, December 2001
- Enrico Fermi-The Master Scientist.by Jay Orear, issued 27-Jan-2004
- Fermi resources from the University of Chicago News OfficeIncludes .mp3 audio file of To Fermi--with love
- Fermi, Enrico. Notebooks, [1926-1938].Archives for the history of quantum physics; pt. 22 Microfilm of originals in Domus Galilaeana, Pisa
Selected books, articles, and websites for more on the Chain Reaction
- The Nuclear chain reaction, forty years later: proceedings of a University of Chicago symposium commemorating the fortieth anniversary of the first controlled self sustaining nuclear chain reaction byCall Number: QC794.5.N77Publication Date: 1984Session I Table of Contents
"History of the Chain Reaction" by Eugene P. Wigner
"Historical Background of the CP-1 Experiment" by Robert G. Sachs
Appendix A "The First Chain Reaction" by Herbert L. Anderson,
Appendix B "Beginning of 1939 Science Service Press Release,"
Appendix C "December 2, 1942: The event and the people" by Albert Wattenberg (reprinted with permission from The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, December 1982), "The Politics of Control--The Role of Chicago Scientists" by Alice Kimball Smith, and "Memories of the McMahon Act" by Edward Levi - Atomic year 25 the story of CP-1: a silver anniversary documentary on the first controlled nuclear chain reaction byPublication Date: 1967?Title from container: "Produced for radio use to observe the twenty-fifth anniversary of the achievement of a controlled nuclear chain reaction at the University of Chicago on December 2nd, 1942"
side 1. A silver anniversary documentary on the birth of the atomic age
side 2. Promo spots / recorded by Ed Ronne, producer-narrator
Publisher's no. 7-8299 Argonne National Laboratory - The first reactor byPublication Date: 1968Contains "The First Pile" by Corbin Allardice and Edward Trapnell, postwar recollections of Enrico and Laura Fermi, many photographs, and a list of suggested references
For younger readers
- Enrico Fermi : and the revolutions in modern physics. byOxford portraits in science. New York : Oxford University Press, c1999
- Enrico Fermi, father of atomic power. byChampaign, Ill., Garrard Pub. Co., 1970
- Enrico Fermi : atomic pioneer. byEnglewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall, 1966
- Enrico Fermi, pioneer of the atomic age. byNew York : Facts on File, 1992
- Enrico Fermi, father of the atomic bomb. byOutstanding personalities; no. 11. Charlotteville : SamHar Press, 1971
- Enrico Fermi : trailblazer in nuclear physics. byNobel Prize-winning scientists. Berkeley Heights, NJ : Enslow Publishers, 2004
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