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  1. Tal Golan is an associate professor in the history department at the University of California, San Diego.

  2. Peter Pesic is director of the Science Institute at St. John’s College in Santa Fe, NM, and is co-editor-in-chief of Physics in Perspective.

  3. James Cronin edited a helpful selection of documents and reminiscences in Fermi Remembered (University of Chicago Press, 2004). Carlo Bernardini and Luisa Bonolis edited the valuable collection Enrico Fermi: His Work and Legacy (Società Italiana di Fisica, 2004); there are also brief accounts, such as Pierre de Latil, Enrico Fermi: The Man and his Theories (Eriksson, 1964) and Dan Cooper, Enrico Fermi and the Revolutions of Modern Physics (Oxford, 1999).

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Book Reviews. Phys. Perspect. 18, 242–246 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00016-016-0183-2

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