From the Book - First edition.
Italy, beginnings. Family roots
The Little Match (Il Piccolo Fiammifero) ; Leaning in : physics and Pisa ; Student days ; The young protégé ; The summer of 1924 ; Florence ; Quantum leaps ; Enrico and Laura
Passages. The boys of Via Panisperna ; The Royal Academy ; Crossing the Atlantic ; Bombarding the nucleus ; Decay ; The neutron comes to Rome ; The rise and fall of the boys ; Transitions ; Stockholm calls
Hello, America. Fission ; News travels ; Chain reaction ; The race begins ; New Americans ; The sleeping giant ; Chicago bound ; Critical pile (CP-1) ; The day the Atomic Age was born
The Atomic City. The Manhattan Project : a three-legged stool ; Signor Fermi becomes Mister Farmer ; Götterdämmerung ; The hill ; "No acceptable alternative" ; Aftershock ; Goodbye, Mr. Farmer
Home. Physicist with a capital 'F' ; The Fermi Method ; The super ; Circling back ; Last gift to Italy (Ultimo regalo all'Italia) ; Farewell to the navigator.
The Little Match (Il Piccolo Fiammifero)
Leaning in: physics and Pisa
The boys of Via Panisperna
The neutron comes to Rome
The rise and fall of the boys
New Americans and the birth of the pile
The day the atomic age was born
The Manhattan project: a three-legged stool
Signor Fermi becomes Mister Farmer
"No acceptable alternative"
Physicist with a capital 'F'
Farewell to the navigator.