Contents -- 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 Physics -- Natural 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 Leptons -- Anticipating 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 -- Citizenship -- Chapter 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 -- Equation of State and the Speed of Sound in Hadronic Matter -- Initial Conditions in the Landau Model: Inelasticity and Lorentz Contraction -- Local Equilibrium - The LESIP Meetings -- Section VII: Einstein in Marburg -- Solitons -- The Auschwitz "Experiments" -- Chapter 18. Einstein Criticized in a Marburg Colloquium -- Hagedorn's Paper Submitted for Publication to Physikalische Blätter -- Albrecht Unsöld - what follows after that? -- Chapter 19. From Hot Spots to Solitons - On Revient Toujours au Vieil Amour -- Density Solitons -- From Jupiter to Atomic Nuclei - Solitons in Rotating Nuclei -- Chapter 20. Caught Up Again by the Past.

The Einstein Scandal: Follow-ups 1983-1989 -- The Auschwitz "Experiments" -- Section VIII: From Optics to Particle Physics -- Traveling to the East -- Chapter 21. Quantum Optical Analogies and Methods in Strong Interactions High-Energy Physics -- Chapter 22. Bose-Einstein Correlations -- Attempts of Falsification -- Some Pions Are More Equal Than Others and Some Unequal Pions Are More Unequal Than Others -- Chapter 23. Order and Chaos -- From Correlation to Multiplicity Distributions -- The Time-Rapidity Analogy -- Self-Induced Transparency in Proton-Nucleus Reactions -- A Filter for Production of Coherent Pion Beams? -- Superradiance in Heavy Ion Reactions -- Superfluorescence and the Centauro Effect -- Squeezed States -- Chapter 24. Traveling to the East -- Section IX: From Germany to France -- Quark-Gluon Plasma -- A Literary Intermezzo -- Re.ections (1995-Present) -- Chapter 25. Moving to Paris -- Chapter 26. France Versus Germany, Personal Impressions -- French Impressions from a Scientist's Point of View -- Linguistic Impressions -- Law and Order -- Social and Political Differences -- The Principle of Presumed Innocence -- The Outreau Affair -- Foreign Policy -- Anti-Semitism -- Political Correctness in Germany and France -- Schools and Religion -- German-French Convergence -- Section X: Quark-Gluon Plasma -- A Literary Intermezzo -- Re.ections -- Chapter 27. Quark-Gluon Plasma, Another Old Love -- Where, Actually, Does Asymptotic Freedom Begin? From Supe.uidity to Strongly Interacting Quark-Gluon Plasma -- Anticipating Strongly Interacting Quark Matter -- the Archimede Effect as a Model for Con.nement of Quarks and Gluons -- Chapter 28. Evidence for Quark-Gluon Plasma from Particle Physics -- The Mystery of the Large Number of Degrees of Freedom -- Some History -- Large Transverse Momenta and Another Analogy: Leakage.

Multiplicity Distributions -- Global Equilibrium: The Universality of the Hadronization Process -- Atomic Mass Dependence of Multiplicity -- Chapter 29. Evidence for Quark-Gluon Plasma from Heavy Ion Reactions -- Traces of QGP in Low Energy Heavy Ion Reaction? -- An Excursion Into Cosmology -- Solving Exactly the Equations of Hydrodynamics -- Outlook -- Chapter 30. A Literary Intermezzo: The Mini-Atom Project -- Chapter 31. Reflections -- Breakdown of Analogies: Mysteries of Modern Physics -- Classical Versus Quantum Physics -- Intuition and Analogies: Three Definitions of Intuition -- Referees, Editors, and Publishers -- Original Papers -- Review Papers -- Fiction -- Appendix 1 -- Statistical Duality -- List of Publications -- Notes and References -- Index.