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    Laura Fermi. Laura and Enrico Fermi at the Institute for Nuclear Studies, Los Alamos, 1954. Laura Capon Fermi (Rome, 16 June 1907 – Chicago, 26 December 1977) was an Italian and naturalized-American writer and political activist. She was the wife of Nobel Prize physicist Enrico Fermi .

  2. Laura Fermi (1907-1977) was an author and historian, as well as the wife of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Enrico Fermi. She worked as an assistant to Dr. Louis Hempelmann of the Los Alamos Health Group during the Manhattan Project, and wrote a unique and detailed first-hand account of life at the…

  3. Laura Fermi wrote her first book in English, Atoms in the Family, a language she had adopted after she, Enrico and the children fled Nazi-allied Italy for the United States in 1939. In Atoms in the Family , Laura reveals her husband Enrico’s human side with humor and grace, at the same time gives us a glimpse into his genius and what it was ...

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  5. Jun 5, 2014 · Her husband Enrico Fermi was the associate director of the laboratories at Los Alamos. In her memoirs Atoms in the Family: My Life with Enrico Fermi , Laura recounts: Apart from the shortage of woman power, which slowly decreased as single girls joined the project, it was an established policy to encourage wives to work.

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  6. Jun 15, 1995 · Paperback – June 15, 1995. In this absorbing account of life with the great atomic scientist Enrico Fermi, Laura Fermi tells the story of their emigration to the United States in the 1930s—part of the widespread movement of scientists from Europe to the New World that was so important to the development of the first atomic bomb.

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  7. Jul 15, 2020 · Laura Fermi. While at Los Alamos Laura Fermi joined other wives of scientists like Kitty Oppenheimer working in the health group to take blood counts. She wrote several books about science and life with Fermi's work, including the Manhattan Project.

  8. Laura Fermi. In this absorbing account of life with the great atomic scientist Enrico Fermi, Laura Fermi tells the story of their emigration to the United States in the 1930s—part of the widespread movement of scientists from Europe to the New World that was so important to the development of the first atomic bomb.

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