The world of Enrico Fermi [motion picture]. 1968.

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The world of Enrico Fermi [motion picture]. 1968.

Documents the life and work of Italian-born physicist Enrico Fermi through the use of still photos, old newsreels, and interviews with those who knew and worked with him at Columbia University, the University of Chicago, and on the Manhattan Project, including: Harold M. Agnew, Edoardo Amaldi, Herbert Lawrence Anderson, Owen Chamberlain, Bellur Sivaramiah Chandrasekhar, Geoffrey F. Chew, Laura Fermi, Samuel Abraham Goudsmit, Philip A. Morrison, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Isidor Isaac Rabi, Franco D. Rasetti, George L. Weil, and Chen Ning Yang.

2 film reels (46 min.) : sd., b&w ; 16 mm.

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