Table of Contents

1.: Obscure origins. 2.: Manchester - the nuclear nursery. 3.: Germany and the War. 4.: A new beginning. 5.: Spark's don't fly. 6.: Discovery of the neutron. 7.: International renown. 8.: Liverpool and the Nobel prize. 9.: His own man - and Rutherford's. 10.: The post-heroic age. 11.: The big question. 12.: The M.A.U.D. report. 13.: Translatlantic travails. 14.: The new world. 15.: The scientist-diplomat. 16.: A different world. 17.: Sir Atom. 18.: Liverpool and Europe. 19.: The mastership. 20.: Final reflections