Diana Preston - Before the Fallout

“beery days”: Ibid., p. 73.

“Hahn… floor”: The quotes in this paragraph are from ibid., pp. 65-66.

“the only person who had real grasp”: Ibid., p. 77.

“much-chewed specimens”: Ibid., p. 74.

“the German Marie Curie”: Frisch, What Little I Remember, p. 3.

“in great astonishment… a man!”: L. Meitner, “Looking Back,” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, November 1964.

“Chadwick had… explain it to him”: All quotes in these two paragraphs are from J. Chad­wick’s oral history, AIP.

“his services Turkish bullet”: Quoted in Wilson, Rutherford, p. 344.

“To hate blood”: M. Curie, Pierre Curie, p. 106.

“in a pitiable position”; “profoundly. perturbed”: Hahn, My Life, p. 120.

“so numbed whole thing”: Ibid., p. 122.

“It was… sooner”: Ibid., p. 118.

“a higher form of killing”: Quoted in R. Harris and J. Paxman, A Higher Form of Killing, xiii.

“to do so future wars”: S. Lindqvist, A History of Bombing, item 96.

“to control without occupation”: Ibid., item 102.

“If’… the war”: Quoted in Wilson, Rutherford, p. 405.

“man projectiles”: Snow, Variety of Men, p. 6.

“like dark”: Quoted in Frisch, What Little I Remember, p. 63.

“That same year departed”: All quotes in this paragraph are from M. Oliphant, Rutherford — Recollections of the Cambridge Days, pp. 22 and 128.

“The 1920s… Germans”: All quotes in this paragraph are found in Rayner-Canham and Rayner-Canham, A Devotion to Their Science, p. 4.

“treated them as guests”: Quoted in L. Rees, Horror in the East, p. 13.

“the simpleness… obtain”: H. Nagaoka’sletter to E. Rutherford of 22 February 1911, CUL/R.

“the greatest woman in the world”: Quoted in Quinn, Marie Curie, p. 384.

“the sister of Prometheus”: Ibid., p. 391.

“very uncouth”: Author’s interview with Bertrand Goldschmidt, 3 April 2002.

“a cow”: Ibid.

“theyoung chap. Irene”: Ibid.

“a violent… over”: Elizabeth Rona quoted in Rayner-Canham and Rayner-Canham, A Devotion to Their Science, p. 212.

“shaking clothing”: A student quoted in ibid. p. 108.

“promises miracles”: Quinn, Marie Curie, p. 410.

“Can… rays”: Ibid., p. 412.

“the stronghold of physics”: W. Heisenberg, Physics and Beyond, p. 62.

“it would he… in Germany”: Quoted in R. Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb, p. 174.

“eggs… good”: R. L. Sime, Lise Meitner, p. 77.

“to do prices”: Hahn, My Life, p. 138.

“while we were busy… food-coupons”: Ibid.

“the secrets of nature”; “whole new… contradictions”: Pascual Jordan quoted in Jungk, Brighter Than a Thousand Suns, p. 9.

“henceforth… war”: M. Born, My Life and My Views, p. 193.

“make physics boom”: Moore, Niels Bohr, p. 97.

“the cocoon periods”: W. Heisenberg, Physics and Beyond, p. 1.

“prophet of nature”: Ibid., p. 28.

“Atomic Housing Officer”: Frisch, What Little 1 Remember, p. 20.

“It was… afternoon”: All quotes in this paragraph are from W Heisenberg, Physics and Beyond, pp. 19 and 38.

“Also politics”: All quotes in this paragraph are in ibid., pp. 44—45.

“through before me”: Ibid., p. 61.

“a coherent … physics”: Ibid., p. 62.

“The more crap”: Quoted on the AIP Web site (Quantum Mechanics).

“The more the less… vice versa”: Ibid.

“the impossibility… instruments”: R. Moore, Niels Bohr, p. 160.

“It seems hard single moment”: B. Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything, p. 131.

The same year, Ityl J… his uncertainty principle: All quotes in these five paragraphs are from E. Teller’s Memoirs, pp. 2, 5, 33, 39, and 47.

“a heroic time creation”: Robert Oppenheimer quoted in Jungk, Brighter Than a Thousand Suns, p. 9.

“in Russia… Rutherford”: Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society (D. Shoen-berg’s memoir of Kapitza).

“fly inside a cathedral”: Quoted in N. Pharr Davis, Lawrence and Oppenheimer, p. 17.

“proton merry-go-round”: Quoted in G. Herken, Brotherhood of the Bomb, p. 4.

“I’m going famous”: Quoted in Nye, Before Big Science, p. 213.

“a four-inch pillbox… octopus”: Ibid., p. 30.

“to break up atoms”: New York Times, quoted in ibid., p. 31.

“to modernise”; “scientific spirit”; “pioneers.ground”; “an abstraction”: E. Wigner’s oral history, AIP.

“it took interested in”: Chadwick’s oral history, AIR “ just kept on pegging away”; “I did… silly experiments”: Ibid.

“I don’t believe it”: Undated notes, entitled “Discovery of the Neutron,” CCC/JC.

“knew in his bones”: Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society (Sir. H. Massey’s and N. Feather’s memoir of Chadwick).

“particles charge o”: D. Wilson, Rutherford, p. 550.

“Kapitza vision”: M. Oliphant, “The Beginning: Chadwick and the Neutron,” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, December 1982.

“to be fortnight”: Quoted in C. P. Snow, The Physicists, p. 85.

“immediately… convincingly”; “of a… physicist”: Quoted in Brown, The Neutron and the Bomb, p. 108.

“The reason nucleus”: Chadwick’s letter to N. Feather of 25 July 1968, CCC/NF.

The discovery hidden riches”: All quotes in this paragraph are from Quinn, Marie Curie, p. 427.

“with… hold of”: Author’s interview with Hans Bethe, 28 April 2002.

“that would… area”; “The experts… bomb”; “destroy New York”: H. Nicolson, Public Faces, p. 17.

“But in… million”: The quotes in this paragraph come from D. Kurzman, Blood and Water, pp. 6—7.

“It never rains but it pours”: Rutherford’s letter to N. Bohr of 21 April 1932, CUL/R.

“do what… ago”: V. Bowden quoted in Campbell, Rutherford, p. 438.

“normally Wellington”; “We’re split. atom!”: Snow, Variety of Men, p. 1.

“Dr. Livingston… Whoopee!”: Quoted in Herken, Brotherhood of the Bomb, p. 5.

“literally room”: Quoted in Pharr Davis, Lawrence and Oppenheimer, p. 42.

“It was elements”: All quotes in this paragraph are from ibid., pp. 45 and 48.

“both innocent”: Quoted in Herken, Brotherhood of the Bomb, p. 11.

“an abnormally… boy”: Quoted in M. Rouze, Robert Oppenheimer — The Man and His Theories, p. 13.

“As appears application”: Letter from P. W. Bridgman to Rutherford of 24 June 1925, printed in A. Kimball-Smith and C. Weiner, eds., Robert Oppenheimer’s Letters and Recollections, p. 77.