I strongly recommend The Pope of Physics for anyone who wants to know more about Fermi or to use his example in teaching.' -Physics Today

Although the book told a familiar tale, I literally could not put it down once I started it. 'Authors Gino Segrè, the nephew of Fermi’s colleague Emilio Segrè, and Bettina Hoerlin, whose father Hermann Hoerlin was an industrial physicist and group leader at Los Alamos National Laboratory, are wonderful writers with a deep sense of the personalities, science, historical backdrop, and locales of Fermi’s story. have combined sophisticated understanding of Fermi’s scientific achievements with intimate, often charming stories of the famed physicist’s personal life, to create a book that’s both intelligent and extremely engaging.a story filled with drama, creativity, adventure.' - The Washington Post “ the first popular cradle-to-grave biography in English of the most famous Italian scientific investigator since Galileo Galilei… quickly hit their stride with a lucid account of how Fermi was born in 1901 to a middle-class family in Rome and became one of the very few physicists to be in the front rank in both theory and experiment.” - Nature have produced a definitive study of Fermi's life and work.' - Andrew Crumey, The Wall Street Journal An examination of the human dramas that touched Fermi’s life as well as a thrilling history of scientific innovation in the twentieth century, this is the comprehensive biography that Fermi deserves. Fleeing Fascism and anti-Semitism, Fermi became a leading figure in America’s most secret project: building the atomic bomb. This unassuming man struggled with issues relevant today, such as the threat of nuclear annihilation and the relationship of science to politics. His discoveries changed our world they led to weapons of mass destruction and conversely to life-saving medical interventions. Called “the Pope” by his peers, he was regarded as infallible in his instincts and research. Named a Best Book of the Year by Bloomberg (Chosen by Philip Tetlock), Booklist’s Top 10 Science Books of the Year, and Shortlisted for Physics World’s Book of the YearĪ Major Biography of the Nobel Prize–Winning Physicist, Enrico Fermi, a Leading Architect of the Atomic AgeĮnrico Fermi is unquestionably among the greats of the world’s physicists, the most famous Italian scientist since Galileo. A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice

The Pope of Physics by Gino Segrè