Description: From Wikipedia: "Enrico Fermi (Italian: [enˈriːko ˈfermi]; 29 September 1901 – 28 November 1954) was an Italian and later naturalized American physicist, renowned for being the creator of the world's first nuclear reactor, the Chicago Pile-1, and a member of the Manhattan Project. He has been called the "architect of the nuclear age" and the "architect of the atomic bomb". He was one of very few physicists to excel in both theoretical physics and experimental physics. Fermi was awarded the 1938 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on induced radioactivity by neutron bombardment and for the discovery of transuranium elements." On this book: "Enrico Fermi, winner of the Nobel Prize for research in neutron physics, makes accessible to the general student of physics the most significant results of the field theories of elementary particles, emphasizing simple, semi-quantitative procedures requiring a minimum of mathematical apparatus." This is FIRST UK EDITION, published by Oxford University Press in 1951. The dust jacket has wear along the edges, with some chunks missing top and bottom of spine, and a bit on the corners as well, but it is clean, fully intact, and now handsomely preserved in a mylar jacket. The light green cloth boards have very light edge and corner wear, some color loss top and bottom of spine from exposure related to the pieces missing from the dust jacket. A previous owner inked name and year (1952) on first free endpaper, else no marks in 110 clean and solidly bound pages. B137
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Binding: Hardcover
Special Attributes: 1st Edition
Author: Enrico Fermi
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Topic: Science
Subject: Chemistry
Location: B137
