Pisa and the Collider Detector at Fermilab: a History of the Establishment of Precision Physics With a Calorimetric Spectrometer at a Hadron Collider

This is a personal and admittedly US-centric attempt to summarize the foundational impact of the Pisa CDF Group on the conceptual design, construction, and early operation of the CDF Detector at Fermilab. I have tried to go back to original documents where possible.
Comment: Invited talk at Fisica e Fisici a Pisa nel Novecento, Nov. 7-9, 2017