Recently read the book, The last man who knew everything: The life and times of Enrico Fermi, father of the nuclear age. I picked up the book at the Whale of a Used Book sale from the Jeffco Libraries. On the cover of the book, it had some stickers saying that it was in St. Anthony’s Hospital and OrthoColorado Hospitals. It is a gift to people from the Volunteer Services Department. I am glad the book found its way to me.

I found the book illuminating. I might try to read some other books about Enrico and the Fermi family.

• Fermi, Laura, Atoms in the family : my life with Enrico Fermi, University of Chicago Press, 1954
• Segrè, Emilio, Enrico Fermi: physicist, University of Chicago Press, 1970
• Webb, Stephen, If the universe is teeming with aliens … where is everybody? : seventy-five solutions to the Fermi paradox and the problem of extraterrestrial life, Springer, 2015
• Guerra, Francesco, The lost notebook of Enrico Fermi : the true story of the discovery of neutron-induced radioactivity, Cham, Switzerland : Springer, 2018
• Segrè, Gino, The Pope of physics : Enrico Fermi and the birth of the Atomic Age, New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2016

There were two things that struck me.

1. Page 355. Nella’s daughter Olivia, and Judd’s daughter, Rachel, have been involved in documenting the legacy of the family. Olivia has two blogs — https://fermieffect.com/ and https://neutrontrail.com/. Rachel wrote the book, Picturing the bomb: Photographs from the secret world of the Manhattan Project / introduction by Richard Rhodes ; [text by] Rachel Fermi and Esther Samra, New York : H.N. Abrams, 1995.
2. Page 359. Fermi-Dirac statistics were developed 100 years ago at the end of 1925 and published in 1926. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi%E2%80%93Dirac_statistics for more information.

Well, there were a lot of other things that I learned about Enrico, but it is too much to include in a short blog post.