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The Pope of Physics

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by Gino Segrè


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  INDEX

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  academic life and institutions

  fission research

  Institutes of Basic Research

  Italian

  Jews and

  Mussolini and

  postwar

  United States

  See also specific universities

  Accademia dei Lincei

  Advisory Committee on Uranium

  Agnew, Harold

  Albuquerque

  Allison, Samuel

  alpha decay

  alpha particles

  aluminum

  Alvarez, Luis

  Amaldi, Edoardo

  Amaldi, Ginestra

  Amaldi, Ugo

  American Institute of Physics

  American Physical Society

  Amidei, Adolfo

  Anderson, Carl

  Anderson, Herbert

  CP-1 experiment

  Fermi and

  Anschluss

  antimatter, theory of

  Anti-Prossimo

  anti-Semitism

  Apuanian Alps

  Argentina

  Argonne

  art

  Associated Press

  Association of Los Alamos Scientists (ALAS)

  astrophysics

  atom

  Bohr model

  nucleus

  wave function and

  atomic bomb

  aftermath of Japanese bombings

  beginning of race for

  chain reaction and

  CP-1 experiment

  decision to use on Japan

  detonation mechanism

  ethics of

  Fat Man

  fission and

  Franck report

  Germany and

  implosion method

  Little Boy

  Manhattan Project

  MAUD Report

  Met Lab project

  plutonium

  postwar debates on

  public opinion on use of

  Roosevelt policy on

  secrecy and

  Smyth report

  Soviet Union and

  Trinity test

  Truman policy

  U.S. research and funding

  used on Japan

  U-235

  atomic energy

  birth of

  positive uses of

  postwar debates on

  Atomic Energy Act

  Atomic Energy Commission (AEC)

  attraction

  Auschwitz

  Austria

  annexation of

  World War I

  automobiles

  Badoglio, Pietro

  Bainbridge, Kenneth

  Bari

  barium

  Baudino, John

  Belgium

  World War II

  Bell Laboratories

  Berkeley

  Berlin

  Berlin-Dahlem Institute

  beryllium

  beta decay

  Fermi theory on

  Bethe, Hans

  Bethe, Rose

  Bhagavad Gita

  Bloch, Felix

  Bohr, Harald

  Bohr, Niels

  complementarity principle

  Fermi and

  fission and

  in Los Alamos

  model of atom

  in United States

  Bohr Institute, Copenhagen

  Bologna

  Born, Max

  boron

  Bothe, Walter

  Boys of Via Panisperna

  breakup of

  Proceedings paper

  rise and fall of

  transuranics and

  Bradbury, Norris

  Brazil

  Briggs, Lyman

  Bristol University

  British Mission

  British Secret Service

  Brussels

  Bryson, William C.

  Buck, Pearl

  Budapest

  Buenos Aires

  Bush, Vannevar

  Byrnes, James

  cadmi
um

  cadmium sulfate

  Caltech

  Cambridge

  Campo dei Fiori, Rome

  Canada

  cancer

  Caorso

  Capon, Augusto

  death in Auschwitz

  Capon, Laura. See Fermi, Laura

  Caraffa, Andrea, Elementorum Physicae Mathematica

  carbon

  Carelli, Antonio

  Carnegie Institution

  Carrara

  Carrara, Nello

  Castelnuovo, Gina

  Castelnuovo, Guido

  Catholicism

  Cavendish Laboratory

  celestial motion, mechanics of

  CERN

  Chadwick, James

  discovery of neutron

  chain reaction

  patent

  Chandrasekhar, Subrahmanyan

  chemistry

  Chicago

  Back of the Yards

  Fermi’s postwar life and work in

  Met Lab project

  China

  Churchill, Winston

  Ciano, Galeazzo

  cloud chamber

  Cold War

  Collegio Romano

  Columbia River

  Columbia University

  Fermi at

  Communism

  McCarthyism and

  Como

  complementarity principle

  Compton, Arthur

  Compton, Karl

  computers

  Conant, James

  concentration camps

  Concordato

  Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche

  Copenhagen

  Copenhagen Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics

  Copernicus, Nicolaus

  Corbino, Orso Mario

  death of

  Cornell University

  Corriere della Sera, Il

  cosmic rays

  CP-1 experiment

  CP-2 experiment

  Curie, Irène

  Curie, Marie

  Curie-Joliot experiment

  cyclotron

  Czechoslovakia

  German invasion of

  Dachau

  Daghlian, Haroutune

  D’Agostino, Oscar

  Dante, Divina Commedia

  Denmark

  deuterium

  Development of Substitute Materials Program

  Diebner, Kurt

  Difesa della Razza

  Dirac, Paul

  Fermi-Dirac statistics

  “The Fundamental Equations of Quantum Mechanics”

  Dolomites

  Dresden

  Dunkirk

  Dunning, John

  DuPont chemical company

  Dyson, Freeman

  Ehrenfest, Paul

  Einstein, Albert

  atomic bomb and

  Fermi and

  theory of relativity

  in United States

  electric battery

  electric forces

  electron microscope

  electrons

  orbits

  wave function and

  Enciclopedia Treccani

  Enola Gay

  Enrico Fermi Award

  Enrico Fermi International School of Physics

  Enrico Fermi Prize

  Enriques, Federico

  Ethiopia, Italian invasion of

  eugenics

  Exclusion Principle

  experimental physics

  extraterrestrial life

  Fano, Ugo

  Fascism

  fall of

  Fermi and

  Fascist Grand Council

  Fat Man

  Federation of American Scientists

  Federzoni, Luigi

  Fermi, Alberto

  death of

  Fermi, Enrico

  academia and

  on Advisory Committee on Uranium

  aftermath of Japanese bombings

  Americanization of

  ancestral roots

  atomic bomb development and

  atomic bomb used on Japan and

  becomes U.S. citizen

  beta decay theory

  birth of

  Bohr and

  chain reaction and

  childhood of

  choice of physics

  Collected Works

  at Columbia University

  CP-1 experiment

  death of

  discovery of neptunium

  “Distinctive Characteristics of Sound and Their Causes”

  education of

  Einstein and

  emotional control of

  as enemy alien

  as experimentalist

  fame of

  as Henry Farmer

  Fascist regime and

  as a father

  finances of

  La Fisica Moderna

  fission and

  “The Fission of Uranium”

  Florence professorship

  GAC and

  Göttingen position

  Hanford project and

  hydrogen bomb and

  immigration to U.S.

  Institutes of Basic Research and

  Introduzione alla Fisica Atomica

  in Leiden

  “Little Match” nickname

  in Los Alamos

  Manhattan Project and

  marriage to Laura

  Met Lab project

  Molecole e Cristalli

  move to Chicago

  Mussolini and

  Nobel Prize of

  personality of

  physical appearance of

  in Pisa

  political views

  “Pope of Physics” nickname

  postwar life and work

  quantum field theory and

  radioactivity experiments

  Franco Rasetti and

  return to Chicago

  return to Italy

  Ricerca papers

  rise to prominence

  Rome professorship

  in Royal Italian Academy

  scattering experiments

  on Scientific Panel

  at Scuola Normale Superiore

  secrecy of war effort and

  on slow neutrons

  statistical mechanics and

  stomach cancer of

  Szilard and

  teaching style of

  “The Theory of the Collisions between Atoms and Electrically Charged Particles”

  thesis of

  Thomas-Fermi equation and

  transuranics and

  Trinity test and

  World War II and

  writings of

  Fermi, Giulia

  Fermi, Giulio (brother of Enrico)

  Fermi, Giulio (Judd, son of Enrico)

  Fermi, Ida

  death of

  Fermi, Laura

  Alchimia del Nostro Tempo

  Americanization of

  Atoms in the Family

  becomes a U.S. citizen

  death of

  death of Fermi

  Holocaust and

  immigration to U.S.

  Judaism of

  in Los Alamos

  marriage to Fermi

  move to Chicago

  return to Italy

  writing career

  Fermi, Maria

  Fermi, Nella

  Fermi, Olivia

  Fermi, Stefano

  Fermi coordinates

  Fermi-Dirac statistics

  Fermilab

  Fermi method

  Fermi questions

  Fermi sea

  Fermi surface

  Ferrovie dello Stato

  Feynman, Richard

  fishing

  fission

  atomic bomb and

  as chain reaction

  discovery of

  Hahn-Strassmann experiment

  Met Lab project

  terminology

  U.S. re
search and funding for atomic bomb

  Florence

  Ford, Ken

  France

  World War I

  World War II

  Franck, James

  Franck report

  Franco, Francisco

  Franconia, RMS

  Frisch, Otto

  discovery of fission

  Fuchs, Klaus

  fusion

  Fussell, Paul

  Gadget

  Galileo

  Gamow, George

  Garbasso, Antonio

  Garwin, Richard

  gas masks

  Geiger counters

  Gell-Mann, Murray

  General Advisory Committee (GAC)

  general relativity

  Geneva Protocol

  Genoa

  geometry

  George Washington University

  Germany

  annexation of Austria

  anti-Semitism and racial laws

  atomic bomb and

  Fermi and

  Gestapo

  Jews

  Kristallnacht

  Nazi

  physics in

  SS

  Uranverein

  World War I

  World War II

  youth movement

  Goldberger, Marvin

  Goodyear Company

  Göttingen

  Goudsmit, Sam

  graphite

  CP-1 experiment

  -uranium experiment

  gravity

  Great Britain

  fission research

  World War I

  World War II

  Greenewalt, Crawford

  Groves, Leslie

  Manhattan Project and

  Gustavus V, King of Sweden

  Hahn, Otto

  discovery of fission

  transuranics and

  Hahn-Strassmann experiment

  Hanford

  Harper’s Magazine

  Harteck, Paul

  Harvard University

  heat

  heavy water

  Heisenberg, Werner

  matrix mechanics

  Nazi regime and

  uncertainty principle

  unified field theory

  in United States

  helium

  Higgs boson

  hiking

  Hilbery, Norman

  Hiroshima

  aftermath of bombing

  atomic bomb dropped on

  Hitler, Adolf

  anti-Semitism and racial policies of

  death of

  Mussolini and

  rise to power

  Hoerlin, Herman

  Hoerlin, Kate

  Holland

  World War II

  Holocaust

  Hooper, Stanford

  Hungary

  anti-Semitism in

  Hutchins, Robert

  Huxley, Aldous, Brave New World

  hydrogen

  hydrogen bomb

  test

  independent findings

  Industrial Revolution

  inflation

  influenza

  Institute for Nuclear Studies

  Institute of Metallurgy

  Institute of Radiobiology and Physics

  Institutes of Basic Research

  intergalactic magnetic fields

  Interim Committee

  International Conference on Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy (1955)

  International Education Board

  Iowa State University

 

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