Introduzione Alla Fisica Atomica
Bologna: Nicola Zanichelli, 1928.
First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's dark blue cloth stamped in gilt. Text in Italian. Near Fine with light rubbing to cloth, neat pencil notations to contents, contents tanned. In a Near Fine dust jacket with slight chipping at extremities, tanning and shadow of removed label to spine panel, small closed tear to front flap. The first published book by the Italian American physicist, Enrico Fermi. Fermi is often called the "architect of the nuclear age" and the "architect of the atomic bomb" for his major contributions to the Manhattan Project. The physicist is most noted for creating the first artificial nuclear reactor, Chicago Pile-1 (CP-1) and was awarded the 1938 Nobel Prize in Physics. Scarce. Item #140947656
Price: $4,500