The Pope of Physics
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Italian Physical Society
Italian Society for the Advancement of Science
Italy
academic life and institutions
anti-Semitism in
currency
education
Ethiopian campaign
Fascism
Fermi returns to
inflation
Jews
physics in
postwar
press
propaganda
railroads
unification
World War I
World War II
Japan
atomic bombs dropped on
attack on Pearl Harbor
physics in
World War II
Jewett, Frank
Jews
academia and
American
anti-Semitism and
German
Holocaust
Italian
Joe-1
Joint Committee on Atomic Energy
Joliot, Frédéric
Jordan, Pascual
k
Kaiser Wilhelm Gesellschaft
Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Chemistry
Khvolson, Orest
Kistiakowsky, George
Kodoma, Michiko
Korean War
Kristallnacht
Krupp steel foundries
Kyoto
Large Hadron Collider
lasers
Lateran Pacts
Latin
Laval University
Lawrence, Ernest
League of Nations
Lee, Tsung Dao
Leiden
Leipzig
Leonia, New Jersey
Levi-Civita, Tullio
Life magazine
Lilienthal, David
lithium
Little Boy
littori
London
Los Alamos
aftermath of Japanese bombings
Bathtub Row
“Big House”
Fermi in
the Hill
hydrogen bomb research
life in
nuclear stockpile
postwar
spies
wives
See also Manhattan Project; specific scientists
Los Alamos Primer
Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory (LASL)
Lo Surdo, Antonio
magnetism
Majorana, Ettore
disappearance of
paranoia and isolation of
Manchuria, Soviet invasion of
Manhattan Project
aftermath of Japanese bombings
bomb used on Japan
British Mission
choice of site
decision to use bomb on Japan
secrecy
Smyth report
Trinity test
Manifesto degli Scienziati Razzisti
March on Rome
Marconi, Guglielmo
Marshall, George
Marshall, John
Marshall, Leona. See Woods Marshall, Leona
mass
mathematics
matrix mechanics
Matteotti, Giacomo
Matterhorn
MAUD Committee
report
Mayer, Maria Goeppert
May-Johnson bill
McCarthyism
McKibbin, Dorothy
McMahon, Brien
McMillan, Edwin
medical technology
Meitner, Lise
discovery of fission
transuranics and
mesons
Messina
Met Lab
Committee on Political and Social Problems
CP-1 experiment
secrecy
Milan
Missouri, USS
MIT
Radiation Laboratory
Monsanto
Montel, Alberto
Montel, Anna
Morocco
Moscow
motion, laws of
MRIs
Munich
Murrow, Edward R.
music
Mussolini, Benito
academia and
anti-Semitic campaign
ascent to power
Ethiopian campaign
fall of
Fermi and
Hitler and
science and
use of propaganda
World War II and
Mussolini Prizes
mustard gas
Nagasaki
atomic bomb dropped on
aftermath of bombing
Napoleon Bonaparte
National Academy of Sciences (NAS)
National Accelerator Laboratory
National Carbon Company
National Defense Research Council (NDRC)
National Recovery Administration
National Research Council
National Security Council
Nature
Naturwissenschaften
Nazism
neptunium
discovery of
naming of
Netherlands
neutrinos
neutrons
beta decay theory
discovery of
slow
New Jersey
New Mexico
Trinity test
New York
New Yorker
New York Herald Tribune
New York Times
Nobel Prize
of Fermi
prejudice against women
Noddack, Ida
nuclear medicine
nuclear physics
beta decay theory
chain reaction
CP-1 experiment
discovery of fission
discovery of neutron
fission
Manhattan Project
Met Lab project
postwar
U.S. research and funding for atomic bomb
See also specific areas, scientists, and theories
nuclear reactors
CP-1
CP-2
Hanford
nucleus
discovery of
discovery of fission
fission
Nuovo Cimento, Il
Oak Ridge
Office of Demography and Race
Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD)
Office of the Inquiry into the Social Aspects of Atomic Energy
Oliphant, Marcus
Oppenheimer, J. Robert
communist affiliations
Manhattan Project and
McCarthy hearings
opposition to H-bomb
postwar nuclear debate and
Oppenheimer, Kitty
Organization for Vigilance and Repression of Anti-Fascism (OVRA)
Oro alla Patria
Ossietsky, Carl von
Padua
Pact of Steel
Palermo
paraffin
Paris
World War II
particle accelerators. See also cyclotron
patents
slow neutron
Pauli, Wolfgang
Exclusion Principle
Pauli Effect
Pauli Principle
Pauling, Linus
Pearl Harbor, attack on
Pegram, George
Peierls, Genia
Peierls, Rudolf
Pentagon
Periodico di Matematiche
periodic table
discovery of neptunium
transuranics
See also specific elements
Persico, Enrico
Philippines
photons
Physical Review
physics
anti-Semitism and
beta decay theory
discovery of f
ission
fission
German
Italian
Japanese
postwar
in United States
Volta Congress
See also specific areas, scientists, and theories
piles
CP-1 experiment
pions
Pisa
Fermi in
Leaning Tower
Pittarelli, Giulio
Pius IX, Pope
Placzek, George
Planck, Max
concept of quanta
plutonium
bomb
naming of
production
pogroms
Poincaré, Henri, Théorie des Tourbillons
Poland
German invasion of
polonium
Pontecorvo, Bruno
Pontremoli, Aldo
positrons
Potsdam Conference
Po Valley
press
anti-Semitic
on discovery of fission
Italian
Scandinavian
United States
See also specific publications
Princeton University
Institute for Advanced Study
Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
Proceedings of the Royal Society of London
protons
Puccianti, Luigi
Pu-239
Pu-240
quanta, concept of
quantum field theory
quantum physics
Exclusion Principle
rise of
See also specific areas, scientists, and theories
Quebec
Quick and the Dead, The (documentary)
Rabi, Isidor
Racah, Giulio
radiation
radiation poisoning
radioactivity
induced
radio frequencies
Radiology
radiosodium
radium
Radium Institute
radon
Raphael
Rasetti, Franco
at Caltech
in Canada
Fermi and
relativity
Renaissance
Rendiconti dell’Accademia dei Lincei
Resphighi, Ottorino
Reviews of Modern Physics
Ribbentrop, Joachim
Ricerca Scientifica, La
Roberts, Richard
Rockefeller, John D., Jr.
Rockefeller Foundation fellowship
Rome
Allied liberation of
ancient
Fermi professorship in
March on
physics upheaval of 1936–37
postwar
World War II
See also Via Panisperna
Rome Meteorological Institute
Roosevelt, Franklin D.
death of
nuclear policy
war policy
Rosenbluth, Marshall
Rosenfeld, Leon
Rossi, Bruno
Rotblat, Józef
Royal Italian Academy
Rutherford, Ernest
death of
Radioactive Substances and Their Radiation
Sachs, Alexander
San Francisco Chronicle
Santa Cristina
Santa Fe
Sardinia
Sarfatti, Margherita
Schrödinger, Erwin
“On the Relation of the Heisenberg-Born-Jordan Quantum Mechanics to Mine”
wave mechanics
Science magazine
Scientific Panel
Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa
Seaborg, Glenn
secrecy
atomic bomb
hydrogen bomb
postwar
Segrè, Angelo
Segrè, Emilio
Holocaust and
last visit with Fermi
in Los Alamos
semiconductors
Serber, Robert
Sicily
Allied invasion of
Siegbahn, Manne
Sinclair, Upton, The Jungle
Site W
Site X
Site Y
slow neutrons
patent
Smith, Cyril
Smyth, Henry de Wolf
Smyth report
sodium
solar eclipse
Solvay Conference
of 1927
of 1930
of 1933
Sommerfeld, Arnold
Atombau und Spektralinien
sound
South America
Soviet Union
Cold War
invasion of Manchuria
nuclear weapons
spies
World War II
Spain
Civil War
spectroscopy
Spedding, Frank
spies
square dancing
Stalin, Joseph
Standing By and Making Do
Stanford University
statistical mechanics
Stimson, Henry
Stockholm
Stone & Webster
Strassmann, Fritz
Strauss, Lewis
Super, the
supernova
Sweden
Switzerland
synagogues
synchrocyclotron
Szilard, Leo
chain reaction and fission research
Fermi and
immigration to United States
Target Committee
technology transfer
television
Teller, Edward
hydrogen bomb and
testimony against Oppenheimer
Tennessee
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
tennis
theoretical physics
beta decay theory
See also specific areas, scientists, and theories
Theoretical Physics Institute, Copenhagen
thermodynamics
Thomas, Llewellyn
Thomas-Fermi equation
thorium
Tibbets, Paul
Tinian
Tokyo
Trabacchi, Giulio Cesare
transistors
transuranics
Trinity test
Truman, Harry
hydrogen bomb and
nuclear policy
Turin
Tuve, Merle
Uffizi Gallery, Florence
Uhlenbeck, George
Ulam, Françoise
Ulam, Stan
uncertainty principle
unified field theory
United Nations
United States
academia
Cold War
decision to use bomb on Japan
Depression
isolationism
Jews
Manhattan Project
McCarthyism
Met Lab
Pearl Harbor attack
physics in
postwar nuclear policy and research
press
research and funding for atomic bomb
uses atomic bomb on Japan
World War II
U.S. Army
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
U.S. Congress
U.S. Navy
University of Berlin
University of Cagliari
University of California
University of Chicago
CP-1 experiment
Institutes of Basic Research
Laboratory School
Met Lab
postwar physics and
Stagg Field
University of Chicago Press
University of Messina
University of Michigan
University
of Naples
University of Pennsylvania
University of Pisa
University of Rochester
University of Rome
University of Vienna
uranium
CP-1 experiment
Met Lab project
neutron bombardment of
oxide dust
research and funding
Uranverein
Urey, Harold
Uruguay
U-235
bomb
U-238
U-239
Vatican
Venice
Via Panisperna
Victor Emmanuel III, King of Italy
Volta, Alessandro
Volta Congress
Volterra, Vito
von Braun, Wernher
von Neumann, John
Wagner, Richard, Götterdämmerung
War Production Board
Washington Conference
Washington Evening Star
Wattenberg, Al
wave mechanics
Weil, George
Weisskopf, Victor
Weizmann, Chaim
Wheeler, John
Wick, Giancarlo
Wigner, Eugene
Wilson, Robert R. (Bob)
Wilson, Volney
wireless telegraphy
Women’s Army Corps (WACs)
Woods Marshall, Leona
World War I
chemical weapons
World War II
beginning of
decision to use to bomb on Japan
end of
events leading to
X-rays
Yalta Conference
Yang, Chen-Ning
Yukawa, Hideki
Zeitschrift für Physik
Zinn, Jean
Zinn, Walter
CP-1 experiment
Zionism
Zip control rod
Zurich
Young Fermi (middle) with his siblings, Giulio and Maria, 1905.
Letter written by Fermi from Göttingen to his friend Enrico Persico, March 1923. Both drawings are meant to be comical. One is a mock-up of an electron hitting an atom; the other is a caricature of a female Göttingen physicist.
Hiking with friends, the only three physics students enrolled at the University of Pisa, in the nearby Apuanian Alps, 1921. Left to right: Fermi, Nello Carrara, Franco Rasetti.
Laura Capon in 1924. “[You have] no idea how beautiful the teenage Laura was,” Enrico commented many years later to a female colleague.
The stars of Knabenphysik (boys’ physics), whose brilliant research changed physics: (left to right) Fermi, Werner Heisenberg, and Wolfgang Pauli at the Volta Conference on Lake Como, 1927. Pauli, age twenty-seven, was the oldest of the three.
Fermi entering data in one of the many notebooks he wrote and then relied upon for his observations and learnings, 1928.
The wedding of Fermi to Laura Capon with friends and family on the Campidolgio steps in Rome. Note Laura’s father, the admiral, in his white suit and Orso Corbino, Fermi’s mentor, to the admiral’s left. July 1928.
The Boys of Via Panisperna, the famous group that led the field of neutron scattering. Left to right: Oscar D’Agostino, Emilio Segrè, Edoardo Amaldi, Franco Rasetti, and Fermi, 1934.
Fermi holding his first born—Nella—in the Dolomites, summer 1931.
Fermi and American novelist Pearl Buck at the Nobel Prize ceremony in Stockholm, 1938.
The new Americans: the Fermi family arriving in America. Giulio, age two (left), and Nella, age seven, on January 2, 1939.