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The rise and fall of the group of Rome

1998; IOP Publishing; Volume: 11; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1088/2058-7058/11/3/11

2058-7058

Susan Biggin,

Twentieth Century Scientific Developments

A few months after Edoardo Amaldi died in 1989, his son Ugo began to sort through his papers. Amaldi had been a member of the internationally acclaimed group of Rome during the 1930s, a gathering of young nuclear physicists which included Enrico Fermi and Emilio Segrè. While the others fled Italy in the years preceding the Second World War, Amaldi remained in Rome.