The Pope of Physics: Enrico Fermi and the birth of the atomic age

Prologue: Trinity

Part 1: 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

Part 2: 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

Part 3: 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

Part 4: 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

Part 5: 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.