CONTENTS

1. Cover
2. Title Page
3. Copyright
4. Dedication
5. Preface
6. Introduction
7. PART ONE: BECOMING FERMI
8. CHAPTER ONE Prodigy
9. CHAPTER TWO Pisa
10. CHAPTER THREE Germany and Holland
11. CHAPTER FOUR Quantum Breakthroughs
12. CHAPTER FIVE Of Geckos and Men
13. PART TWO: THE ROME YEARS
14. CHAPTER SIX Family Life
15. CHAPTER SEVEN The Rome School
16. CHAPTER EIGHT Beta Rays
17. CHAPTER NINE Goldfish
18. CHAPTER TEN Physics as Soma
19. CHAPTER ELEVEN The Nobel Prize
20. PART THREE: THE MANHATTAN PROJECT
21. CHAPTER TWELVE The New World
22. CHAPTER THIRTEEN Splitting the Atom
23. CHAPTER FOURTEEN Fermi Meets the Navy
24. CHAPTER FIFTEEN Piles of Graphite
25. CHAPTER SIXTEEN The Move to Chicago
26. CHAPTER SEVENTEEN “We’re Cookin’!”
27. CHAPTER EIGHTEEN Xenon-135
28. CHAPTER NINETEEN On a Mesa
29. CHAPTER TWENTY An Unholy Trinity
30. PART FOUR: THE CHICAGO YEARS
31. CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE Return to Chicago
32. CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO In the Public Eye
33. CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE A Patent Fight
34. CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR Brilliant Teacher, Beloved Mentor
35. CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE Travels Abroad
36. CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX Home to Die
37. CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN Fermi’s Legacy
38. Acknowledgments
39. About the Author
40. Also By David N. Schwartz
41. Praise for The Last Man Who Knew Everything
42. Credits
43. Bibliography
44. Notes
45. Index