Contents -- Chapter 1: Born in a Revolution -- Chapter 2: Early Promise Fulfilled -- Sidebar: Fermi-Dirac Statistics: Helping Explain the World -- Chapter 3: The Road to a Nobel Prize -- Sidebar: Heisenberg's Matrix Mechanics -- Sidebar: The Nuclear Reactions That Won a Nobel Prize -- Chapter 4: Racing to a Chain Reaction -- Chapter 5: Los Alamos and the A-Bomb -- Chapter 6: Science in Chicago, Service in Washington -- Chapter 7: A Great Man Honored and Remembered -- Chronology -- Further Reading -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y.