Preface; Part I: THE WANDERING YEARS (1930-1974); Section I: Czernowitz, a City of People and Books that No Longer Exists (1930-1945); Chapter 1. Childhood; My Countries; My Languages; My Family; My Schools; Chapter 2. Politics

Premonition of War; Making Ends Meet; Chapter 3. War

The Ghetto; Section II: Post-War Romania; The Isomeric Shift; Persona Non Grata (1945-1969); Chapter 4. High School and University; Foc ̧sani 1945-1949; Bucharest; University; Theoretical Physics; Chapter 5. The Isomeric Shift on Spectral Lines; The Discovery of the Isomeric Shift

Finite Size Effects in Subatomic PhysicsNatural Line Width and the Limits of Optical Spectroscopy; Atomic Versus Nuclear Shells, the Pauli Exclusion Principle and the Nuclear Shell Model; The Isomeric Shift and the Shell Structure of Nuclei; Some Confusion of Terminology; The Mössbauer Effect; Dubna

1958; Chapter 6. Persona Non Grata; Applying for Emigration and Its Consequences; The Romanian Thaw; Interdiction to Leave for the West; Nuclear Recoil in Muonic Atoms; Chapter 7. Challenging Conventional Wisdom in Particle Physics; Anticipating Electro-Weak Unification?

Anticipating Supersymmetry? Exotic Particles

Bosonic LeptonsAnticipating Grand Uni.ed Theories? Exotic Particles

Strange Leptons; The Escape; Czechoslovakia; Chapter 8. Nazi-Communist Analogy; Section III: Geneva, Bonn; Statistical Concepts in High-Energy Physics (1969-1974); Chapter 9. CERN; From Vienna to Geneva; CERN; Uproar in the Media; Physics at CERN; Strong Interaction Phenomenology; Regge Poles and Duality; The Münchhausen Principle; Chapter 10. Statistical Concepts in High-Energy Physics; Phase Transitions; Section IV: Bonn, Bloomington (Indiana), London

Super.uidity of Hadronic Matter (1970-1974)Chapter 11. Bonn; Chapter 12. USA; Indiana University; A Letter from the White House; The Mesonic Cloud of the Nucleon and Super.uidity; Chapter 13. London, Imperial College; Trips on the Continent; Superfluidity and Symmetries; Supefluidity and Superconductivity: Analogies and Follow-ups; Related Developments; Superfluidity of Hadronic Matter in Retrospective; Statistical Concepts Applied to Weak Interactions; Part II: SETTLING YEARS (1974-PRESENT); Section V: Marburg; Hot Spots; Chapter 14. Professor at the Philipps University of Marburg

CitizenshipChapter 15. Hot Spots in "Elementary" Particles and in Nuclei; Propagation of Heat in Hadronic Matter; Hot Spots in Nuclei; Meeting Bethe; Section VI: Germany's Coping with the Past; The Hydrodynamical Analogy; Chapter 16. Rewriting History; The German A-bomb; Attempts to Justify the Past; Ignoring History; Misunderstanding the Past; Coping with the Communist Past of East Germany; Chapter 17. From Super.uids to Fluids; The Hydrodynamical Analogy Applied to Multiparticle Production in Strong Interactions; The Landau Model Rules the Waves in Nuclei as Well