Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

The Last Man Who Knew Everything: The Life and Times of Enrico Fermi, Father of the Nuclear Age. By David Schwartz. Basic Books; 451 pages; $35 and £27.99. JUST before daybreak on July 16th 1945 ...

"November 2017"--Title page verso. NMAH copy purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. "In December 1942, a team at the University of Chicago achieved a milestone in human history: a ...

In biographies of physicists I see two limiting cases. There are a few physicists, such as Newton, whose science is almost a given, allowing one to focus on the life. Two examples are the standard ...

Authors looking to mine science history can find no richer lode than physics in the early- to mid-20th century. New subatomic discoveries and the groundbreaking theories of relativity and quantum ...

Marina Cobal reviews The Pope of Physics: Enrico Fermi and the Birth of the Atomic Age by Gino Segrè and Bettina Hoerlin The Via Panisperna boys. From left: Oscar D’Agostino, Emilio Segrè, Edoardo ...

David Schwartz’s interest in the life of Enrico Fermi (1901–1954) was sparked by an essay about the legendary physicist that he found among his late father’s papers. Melvin Schwartz was a Nobel ...

David N. Schwartz is the author of The Last Man Who Knew Everything: The Life and Times of Enrico Fermi, Father of the Nuclear Age. You can find him on Twitter at: @dschwa8059. I have been living with ...

Family portrait Enrico Fermi and family in their early days in the US, in 1938. David Schwartz’s new book on Fermi covers the US years in particular detail. (Courtesy: AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives ...

The megalomaniac physicist Edward Teller “was always certain that he was smarter than all his colleagues on the Manhattan Project, except one”, a younger colleague of his (Robert Sachs) told me in ...