"In our work we are always between Scylla and Charybdis; we may fail to abstract enough, and miss important physics, or we may abstract too much and end up with fictitious objects in our models turning into real monsters that devour us."
-- Murray Gell-Mann, in a 1972 lecture on quarks in Schladming, Austria.
Prologue. On the Trail to La Vega
Chapter 1. A Hyphenated American
Czernowitz, Vienna, and New York City
Chapter 2: The Walking Encyclopedia
New York City and New Haven
Chapter 3: A Feeling for the Mechanism
Cambridge
Chapter 4: Village of the Demigods
Princeton
Chapter 5: The Magic Memory
Chicago
Chapter 6: 'No Excellent Beauty'
Chicago, Princeton, Paris, Urbana, Glasgow, Copenhagen, and Pisa
Chapter 7: A Lop-Sided Universe
Pasadena and Moscow
Chapter 8: Field of Dreams
Pasadena and Kiev
Chapter 9: The Magic Eightball
Paris, Entebbe, the Serengeti, Pasadena, and San Diego
Chapter 10. Holy Trinities
Geneva, Cambridge, New York, and Pasadena
Chapter 11. Aces and Quarks
Pasadena, Udaipur, Kyoto, Dubna, Katmandu, and Sapporo
Chapter 12. The Swedish Prize
Pasadena, Princeton, and Stockholm
Chapter 13. Quantum Chromodynamics
Aspen, Pasadena, Geneva, and Paris
Chapter 14. Superphysics
Pasadena, Aspen, and Tesuque
Chapter 15. From the Simple to the Complex
Sant Feliu de Guixols, Pasadena, Lima, and Santa Fe
Chapter 16. The Quark and the Jaguar
Santa Fe, New York City
Epilogue. Valentine's Day, 1997
Glossary
Sources and Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index