The Perrones arrived from Italy with the shirts on their back. They scratched and saved to help young Ferdinand attend medical school. He became a country doctor in upstate New York, where he spent his life treating local farmers. His two sons served in the US Navy. One had a daughter, the mother of my children. Ferdinand was not a real American.
Enrico Fermi, Hans Bethe, Leo Szilard, Eugene Wigner, John von Neumann, Edward Teller, and Victor Weiskopf came to...
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