The plural term “quotations” refers to permissions obtained to use several quotes throughout the book; the singular “quotation” refers to only one used in the book. Listed here in order of publication name or author’s last name.
Quotations by Samuel Allison, Emilio Segrè, and Herbert Anderson in Physics Today 8, 1, 9 (1955) reproduced with the permission of the American Institute of Physics.
Quotation from Luis Alvarez, Adventures of a Physicist (New York: Basic Books, 1987), reproduced with permission of Walter Alvarez.
Quotations from American Institute of Physics (AIP), “Oral History Interviews: Franco Rasetti and Enrico Persico,” interviewed by Thomas S. Kuhn, April 8, 1963; “Oral History Interviews: George Uhlenbeck—Session III,” April 5, 1962; “Oral History Interviews: Herbert Lawrence Anderson—Session II,” interviewed by Lillian Hoddeson and Alison Kerr, January 13, 1981; and “Oral History Interviews: I. I. Rabi—Session II,” interviewed by Stephen White, February 21, 1980, reproduced with permission of the American Institute of Physics.
Quotation from Bernice Brode, Los Alamos Tales (Los Alamos, NM: Los Alamos Historical Society, 1997) reproduced with permission of the Los Alamos Historical Society.
Quotations from the Santa Fe New Mexican and private letters by Hans Bethe reproduced with permission of the estate of Hans Bethe.
Quotations from Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, “The Pursuit of Science,” Minerva 22, nos. 3/4 (September 1984): 410–420 reproduced with permission of Springer Science and Business Media.
Quotation from Max Dresden, letter in “Heisenberg, Goudsmit, and the German ‘A-Bomb,’” Physics Today 44, no. 5 (May 1991) reproduced with permission of Physics Today.
Quotations from Enrico Fermi: The Collected Papers (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1962 and 1965) reproduced with permission of the University of Chicago Press.
Quotations from Laura Fermi, Atoms in the Family (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1954) reproduced with permission of the University of Chicago Press.
Quotation from Leona Marshall Libby, The Uranium People (New York: Crane, Russak/Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1979) reproduced with permission of John Marshall III.
Quotations from “Memorial Symposium Held in Honor of Enrico Fermi at the Washington Meeting of the American Physical Society, April 29, 1955,” Reviews of Modern Physics 25, no. 3 (July 1955) reproduced with permission of Reviews of Modern Physics.
Quotations from Emilio Segrè, Enrico Fermi, Physicist (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1970) reproduced with permission of the Estate of Emilio Segrè.
Quotation from Spencer R. Weart and Gertrude Weiss Szilard, eds., Leo Szilard, His Version of the Facts (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1978) reproduced with permission of Estate of Leo Szilard.
Quotation from Emilio Segrè, A Mind Always in Motion (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994) reproduced with permission of the Estate of Emilio Segrè.
Quotations from Eugene Wigner, Symmetries and Reflections (Woodbridge, CT: Ox Bow Press, 1979) reproduced with permission of the Ox Bow Press.