Ah, Benny's parents, thanks for coming.

Hiya.

So, Benny has really blossomed this term.

You're telling me, he outgrew his bike. We sold it, on eBay.

Oh, that's not quite what I meant.

It's free to sell on there?

Free to sell?

Easy too. Sold Benny's bike, your guitar, my jacket.

You sold my guitar?

Shall we talk about Benning?

When it's this easy to sell for free, you can't help but say when it's eBay.

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Welcome to Scientific American Science Talk posted on February 19th, 2018.

I'm Steve Merski. On this episode, and once people realize that Fermi had been splitting the atom, it was Zillard who approached Fermi and said, you know, you may be able to create a chain reaction by splitting the uranium atom by bombarding it with slow neutrons. That's David N. Schwartz, and his latest book is The Last Man Who Knew Everything,

The Life and Times of Enrico Fermi, father of the nuclear age.

Schwartz has a doctorate in political science from MIT.

His previous book was NATO's nuclear dilemmas.

And he grew up with physics spoken fluently in his home, as you'll hear.

We spoke at his agent's office in Manhattan.

The last man who knew everything, this was something one of his graduate students said about him.

What does that really mean about Fermi?

Well, it means that he was probably the last person who could view physics as an integrated whole.

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