Biography: Get to Know the Nobel-Prize Winning “Pope of Physics”


Husband and wife team from University of Pennsylvania to release new book about physicist Enrico Fermi.

This article, written by Ali Sundermier, appears on Penn Current.

Penn husband-and-wife team pen biography on ‘Pope of Physics’

When Bettina Hoerlin, formerly an adjunct professor at Penn for 16 years, was a teenager, she met Italian physicist and Nobel Prize-winner Enrico Fermi on a Sunday hike with her father, Hermann Hoerlin, a physicist at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.

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