Background
Fermi, Laura was born on June 16, 1907 in Rome, Italy. Daughter of Augusto and Costanza (Romanelli) Capon.
( In this absorbing account of life with the great atomic...)
In this absorbing account of life with the great atomic scientist Enrico Fermi, Laura Fermi tells the story of their emigration to the United States in the 1930s—part of the widespread movement of scientists from Europe to the New World that was so important to the development of the first atomic bomb. Combining intellectual biography and social history, Laura Fermi traces her husband's career from his childhood, when he taught himself physics, through his rise in the Italian university system concurrent with the rise of fascism, to his receipt of the Nobel Prize, which offered a perfect opportunity to flee the country without arousing official suspicion, and his odyssey to the United States.
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Fermi, Laura was born on June 16, 1907 in Rome, Italy. Daughter of Augusto and Costanza (Romanelli) Capon.
Student of University Rome, 1926-1928.
Capon met Enrico Fermi while she was a student in general science at the University of Rome. The couple married in 1928. In 1938, the Fermis emigrated to the United States to escape the politics of the Fascist government of Benito Mussolini.
Laura was Jewish.
They were naturalized as Americans in 1944. After Enrico died of stomach cancer in 1954, Laura became a writer and a peace activist. She published a book about her life with Enrico, Atoms in the Family, the same year he died.
She herself died in 1977.
( In this absorbing account of life with the great atomic...)
Member Chicago Air Pollution Control Committee, 1960-1968. Board Governors International House Chicago, 1955-1966. Member women's board University of Chicago Guggenheim fellow, 1957.
Member League Women Voters Chicago.
Married Enrico Fermi, July 19, 1928 (deceased). Children: Nella (Mistress Weiner), Giulio.