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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Schwartz, David N., 1956–author.
Title: The last man who knew everything : the life and times of Enrico Fermi, father of the nuclear age / David N. Schwartz.
Description: New York : Basic Books, an imprint of Perseus Books, LLC, a subsidiary of Hachette Book Group, Inc., [2017] | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017020558| ISBN 9780465072927 (hardcover) | ISBN 0465072925 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780465093120 (ebook) | ISBN 0465093124 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Fermi, Enrico, 1901–1954. | Physicists—Italy—Biography. | Physicists—United States—Biography. | Nuclear physicists—Italy—Biography. | Nuclear physicists—United States—Biography.
Classification: LCC QC16.F46 S39 2017 | DDC 530.092 [B]—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017020558
E3-20171103-JV-PC