some fathers tell their kids about mythical home run hitters who won the World Series, or of courageous expeditions to Antarctica or the moon. My father’s story to me was about Enrico Fermi and the scientists who created a nuclear chain reaction beneath the stands of the football stadium at the University of Chicago during World War II. As a lifelong Chicagoan, Dad preferred this story to those about heroic men at Los Alamos. It was at this moment under Stagg Field, he believed, that brilliant men had convened for some greater scientific purpose. The only story as awe inspiring was the one he told of the Founding Fathers, who converged on Philadelphia in 1776 to establish, as Dad put it, the most enlightened democracy in the world. [download]
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