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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.
Laura Fermi was an author, historian, and the wife of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Enrico Fermi. She wrote about their life in Italy and the US, and her experiences at Los Alamos and Chicago during the Manhattan Project.
Laura Fermi was a writer, historian and activist who documented her husband Enrico Fermi's scientific achievements and personal story in Atoms in the Family. She also explored the ethical and political implications of nuclear energy and the role of Italian culture in history.
Laura Fermi founded the Civic Disarmament Committee for Handgun Control. She also founded the Cleaner Air Committee of Hyde Park and Kenwood and served on the Chicago Air Pollution Control Commission.
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.
Laura, 16, considered him “pretty old.” She forgave his age and married him in 1928. On their honeymoon he tried to teach her physics, starting with Maxwell’s Equations on the propagation of...
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. Combining intellectual biography and ...
