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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. Biography.
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…
Laura Fermi’s Life. Laura Capon Fermi (June 16, 1907 – December 26, 1977) with son Giulio, daughter Nella and husband Enrico arriving in America (1939).
Laura Capon Fermi was an Italian and naturalized-American writer and political activist. She was the wife of Nobel Prize physicist Enrico Fermi.
Laura Fermi describes their life on the pine-covered mesa, cut off from the world, where the men disappeared every morning behind the high wire fence of the “technical...
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 ...
Laura Fermi (Fermi), together with her friend, Ginestra Amaldi, wife of Edoardo Amaldi, one of Enrico’s colleagues wrote Alchimia dei Nostri Tempi, a book explaining their husbands’ work for lay people. This was published in 1936.
