1. The beginning of the journey to the small: cutting paper -- 2. To moleciles and atoms -- 3. The magical myatery of the quanta -- 4. Dazzling velocities -- 5. The elementary particle zoo before 1970 -- 6. Life and death -- 7. The crazy kaons -- 8. The invisible quarks -- 9. Fields or bootstraps? -- 10. The yang-mills bonanza -- 11. Superconducting empty space: the Higgs-Kibble machine -- 12. Models -- 13. Coloring in the strong forces -- 14. The magnetic monopole -- 15. Gypsy -- 16. The brilliance of the standard model -- 17. Anomalies -- 18. Deceptive perfection -- 19. Weighing neutrinos -- 20. The great desert -- 21. Technicolor -- 22. Grand unification -- 23. Supergravity -- 24. Eleven-dimensional space-time -- 25. Attaching the superstring -- 26. Into the black hole -- 27. Theories that do not yet exist ... -- 28. Dominance of the rule of the smallest

1. Standard model (Nuclear physics)