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“That’s bad”: Quoted in T. Powers, Heisenberg’s War, p. 170.

“The point… is…”: Quoted in Pharr Davis, Lawrence and Oppenheimer, p. 21.

“the awful fact of excellence”: Letter to F. Fergusson of 23 January 1923, printed in Kimball-Smith and Weiner, Robert Oppenheimer — Letters and Recollections, p. 92.

“part… physics”: Kimball-Smith and Weiner, eds., Robert Oppenheimer — Letters and Recollections, p. 98.

“They are… successful”: Ibid., p. 100.

“a vile driver”; “scare friends… seventy”: Ibid., p. 135.

“I would criticism”: Quoted in ibid., p. 130.

“I have together”: Quoted in Pharr Davis, Lawrence and Oppenheimer, p. 25.

“unbelievable life”: Quoted in Herken, Brotherhood of the Bomb, p. 12.

“nasty gory”: Kimball-Smith and Weiner, Robert Oppenheimer — Letters and Recollections, p. 133

“knew did”: Quoted in Pharr Davis, Lawrence and Oppenheimer, p. 51.

“We are busy… experiments”: Letter from R. Oppenheimer to F. Oppenheimer of Autumn 1932, printed in Kimball-Smith and Weiner, eds., Robert Oppenheimer — Letters and Recollections, p. 109.

“The experimenters… again”: J. Cockcroft quoted in J. Hendry, ed., Cambridge Physics in the Thirties, p. 79.

“catching up countries”: D. Holloway, Stalin and the Bomb, p. 1 5.

“Comrade Rutherford”: R. Peierls, Bird of Passage, p. 95.

“the world… not of it”: Quoted in Powers, Heisenberg’s War, p. 172.

“In 1932… superiority”: All quotes in this paragraph are from Rees, Horror in the East, p. 23.

“vision”; “bathed woke up”: W Heisenberg, Physics and Beyond, p. 125.

Perhaps to forget… snowline: All quotes in these two paragraphs are from ibid., pp. 125 and 127.

“We Germans Fatherland”: Sime, Lise Meitner, p. 139.

“All… shattered”; “in despair… family”: Ibid., p. 140.

“Jewish… pawn”: E. Heisenberg, Inner Exile, p. 48.

“spirit of Einstein’s spirit”; “to be rewarded… chair”: Physics World, December 2001.

“a White Jew”; “representatives… themselves”: Jungk, Brighter Than a Thousand Suns, p. 74.

“ugly inscription”; “breathe quietly”: W. Heisenberg, Physics and Beyond, p. 173.

“complete idiot…”: Quoted in Physics World, December 2001.

“civil liberty… law”: Quoted in Sime, Lise Meitner, p. 137.

“My heart…young ones”: Quoted in R. C. Williams, Klaus Fuchs, Atom Spy, p. 36.

“no butlers dress”: Snow, Variety of Men, p. 87.

“it’s as important … sciences”: Quoted in Jungk, Brighter Than a Thousand Suns, p. 46.

“no better than the rabble”: Quoted in Sime, Lise Meitner, p. 138.

“whipped frenzy”: Quoted in Powers, Heisenberg’s War, p. 39.

finely creases”; “seemed tortured”; “utterly futile”: W Heisenberg, Physics and Beyond, p. 150.

“Since hateful”: Quoted in Sime, Lise Meitner, p. 143.

“inner exile”: E. Heisenberg, Inner Exile, “the old values”: W Heisenberg, Physics and Beyond, p. 151.

“after the catastrophe”: Ibid., p. 154.

“at least stay on”: Ibid., p. 152.

“If today former”: Sime, Lise Meitner, pp. 145—46.

“Haber him”: Ibid., p. 156.

“going backwards way”: Pflaum, Grand Obsession, p. 298.

“My colleagues… neutron”: Ibid., p. 302.

“With the neutron… time”: Quinn, Marie Curie, p. 429.

“We… time”; “We… butts”; “a sound…forget”: Pharr Davis, Lawrence and Oppenheimer, p. 60.

“the expression… life”: Quinn, Madame Curie, p. 430.

“We’re back… laboratory”: E. Curie, Madame Curie, p. 384.

“La Patronne”… Langevin”: All quotes in this paragraph are from the author’s interview with Goldschmidt of 3 April 1992.

“of rapid. radiations”; “in her shaking hand”: E. Curie, Madame Curie, pp. 400—401.

“scientists character”: Quoted in Jungk, Brighter Than a Thousand Suns, p. 48.

“talking moonshine”: Times (London), 12 September 1933.

“Not only… to become”: Quoted in Moore, Niels Bohr, p. 213.

“a blind man ducks”: Ibid.

“greatfurrowed forehead”; “enormous eyes”: Snow, Variety of Men, p. 84.

“A disaster surroundings”: Born, My Life and My Views, p. 38.

“declined violently”; “he did not wish… poison-gas”: Letter from M. Born to J. Chadwick of 11 August 1954, quoted in Oliphant, Rutherford, p. 60.

“a sort of labour exchange”: Frisch, What Little I Remember, p. 53.

“They accepted world”: Teller, Memoirs, pp. 120-21.

“God me”: Frisch, What Little I Remember, p. 76.

“a continuing Germany”: Kimball-Smith and Weiner, eds., Robert Oppenheimer — Letters and Recollections, p. 196.

“living on top of a volcano”: Quoted in Jungk, Brighter Than a Thousand Suns, p. 29.

“could no longer Hitler”; “we are us”: Ibid., pp. 57—58.

“A reasonable number”: Quoted in L. Badash, Kapitza, Rutheford and the Kremlin, p. 110.

“I am alive”: Wilson, Rutherford, p. 528.

“It was. equipment”: Chadwick’s oral history, AIP.

“He was. very well”: Ibid.

“only hanging by a thread”: Letter from Lady Rutherford to J. Chadwick of 9 October 1937,CCC/JC.

“I feel it in my water”: Quoted in Oliphant, Rutheford, p. 110.

“stupefied miserable”; “did things”: Snow, Variety of Men, p. 14.

“one of … time”: Ibid., p. 79.

“in quite found it”: N. Bohr’s obituary of Rutherford in Nature, 1937.

“it was not… nature”: Jungk, Brighter Than a Thousand Suns, p. 59.

“keep an eye on the matter”: Powers, Heisenberg’s War, p. 53.

“a steamroller obstacles”: E. Segre, Enrico Fermi, p. 56.

“ancient role fields”: Sime, Lise Meitner, p. 164.

“the counter clicked madly”: L. Fermi, Atoms in the Family, p. 98.

“sofascinating”; “an outstanding chemist”: Sime, Lise Meitner, pp. 164—65.

“conceivable elements”: Jungk, Brighter Than a Thousand Suns, p. 61.

“It said.to me”: M. Goldsmith, Frederic Joliot-Curie, p. 71.

“plain dishonest”: E. Segre’s oral history, AIP.

“assumption… really absurd”: I. Noddack quoting O. Hahn in Rayner-Canham and Rayner-Canham, A Devotion to Their Science, p. 223.