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Index
Cover
Title Page
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Prologue: Trinity
Part 1: Italy, Beginnings
Chapter 1. Family Roots
Chapter 2. The Little Match (Il Piccolo Fiammifero)
Chapter 3. Leaning In: Physics and Pisa
Chapter 4. Student Days
Chapter 5. The Young Protégé
Chapter 6. The Summer of 1924
Chapter 7. Florence
Chapter 8. Quantum Leaps
Chapter 9. Enrico and Laura
Part 2: Passages
Chapter 10. The Boys of Via Panisperna
Chapter 11. The Royal Academy
Chapter 12. Crossing the Atlantic
Chapter 13. Bombarding the Nucleus
Chapter 14. Decay
Chapter 15. The Neutron Comes to Rome
Chapter 16. The Rise and Fall of the Boys
Chapter 17. Transitions
Chapter 18. Stockholm Calls
Part 3: Hello, America
Chapter 19. Fission
Chapter 20. News Travels
Chapter 21. Chain Reaction
Chapter 22. The Race Begins
Chapter 23. New Americans
Chapter 24. The Sleeping Giant
Chapter 25. Chicago Bound
Chapter 26. Critical Pile (CP-1)
Chapter 27. The Day the Atomic Age Was Born
Part 4: The Atomic City
Chapter 28. The Manhattan Project: A Three-Legged Stool
Chapter 29. Signor Fermi Becomes Mister Farmer
Chapter 30. Götterdämmerung
Chapter 31. The Hill
Chapter 32. “No Acceptable Alternative”
Chapter 33. Aftershock
Chapter 34. Goodbye, Mr. Farmer
Part 5: Home
Chapter 35. Physicist with a Capital F
Chapter 36. The Fermi Method
Chapter 37. The Super
Chapter 38. Circling Back
Chapter 39. Last Gift to Italy (Ultimo Regalo all’Italia)
Chapter 40. Farewell to the Navigator
Afterword
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Photos
About the Authors
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