ALSO BY FRANK CLOSE -- Title Page -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- PART 1 - GENESIS -- Chapter 1 - THE POINT OF INFINITY -- MATTHEWS AND KEMMER -- THE ATOMIC BAR CODE -- ALPHA -- INFINITY APPEARS -- THE TEXTBOOKS ARE OUT-OF-DATE -- Chapter 2 - SHELTER ISLAND AND QED -- SCHWINGER AND FEYNMAN -- FEYNMAN'S ACTION -- PICTURES OR PROUST? -- RENORMALIZATION -- ROUND 1: SCHWINGER -- SHELTER ISLAND 2: POCONO MOUNTAINS -- Chapter 3 - FEYNMAN, SCHWINGER, . . . AND TOMONAGA (AND DYSON) -- FREEMAN DYSON -- FEYNMAN'S DIAGRAMS -- Chapter 4 - ABDUS SALAM: A STRONG BEGINNING -- THE CASE OF THE OVERLAPPING INFINITIES -- A STRONG SOLUTION-TEMPORARILY -- THE SMILE OF THE CHESHIRE CAT -- Chapter 5 - YANG, MILLS, . . . AND SHAW -- YANG-MILLS THEORIES -- GAUGE INVARIANCE -- YANG MEETS MILLS -- PAULI'S INTERVENTION -- YANG, MILLS, AND SHAW -- A MISSED OPPORTUNITY -- Chapter 6 - THE IDENTITY OF JOHN WARD -- WARD'S IDENTITIES -- TRAVELS AND TRAVAILS -- FATHER OF THE BRITISH H-BOMB -- THE WEAK NUCLEAR FORCE -- Chapter 7 - THE MARRIAGE OF WEAK AND ELECTROMAGNETIC FORCES-TO 1964 -- FROM SCHWINGER TO SHELLY GLASHOW -- GLASHOW'S STORY -- "ESS-YOU-TWO-CROSS-YOU-ONE" -- A NEUTRAL WEAK FORCE -- SALAM AND WARD: ACT 1 -- Chapter 8 - BROKEN SYMMETRIES -- HIDDEN SYMMETRY -- SUPERCONDUCTIVITY -- SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND HIDDEN SYMMETRY -- HIDDEN SYMMETRY AND PARTICLE PHYSICS -- ANDERSON'S PLASMA -- THE DISAPPEARANCE OF GOLDSTONE'S MASSLESS BOSON -- Chapter 9 - " THE BOSON THAT HAS BEEN NAMED AFTER ME," A.K.A. THE HIGGS BOSON -- GLOBAL AND LOCAL SYMMETRY -- MISSED OPPORTUNITIES -- BROUT AND ENGLERT -- ENTER PETER HIGGS -- HIGGS'S BOSON -- GURALNIK, HAGEN, AND KIBBLE -- FORTY-SIX YEARS LATER -- Chapter 10 - 1967: FROM KIBBLE TO SALAM AND WEINBERG -- SPRING -- SUMMER -- WEINBERG'S MODEL -- SOLVAY CONGRESS: OCTOBER 1967 -- WEINBERG'S PAPER.

Chapter 11 - "AND NOW I INTRODUCE MR. 'T HOOFT " -- TINI VELTMAN -- THE ROUTE TO CARGESE -- 'T HOOFT CLIMBS EVEREST -- A RENORMALIZABLE THEORY -- "AND NOW I INTRODUCE MR. 'T HOOFT" -- THREADS -- PART 2 - REVELATION -- Chapter 12 - B. J. AND THE COSMIC QUARKS -- QUARKS -- THE QUARK MODEL -- QUARKS AT SLAC -- FEYNMAN'S EPIPHANY -- CHARM -- Chapter 13 - A COMEDY OF ERRORS -- THE ENIGMA OF BJORKEN-SCALING -- 'T HOOFT AT MARSEILLE -- 'T HOOFT AND OTHERS -- THE WINTER'S TALE -- ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL -- B. J.'S CHARM -- Chapter 14 - HEAVY LIGHT -- NEUTRAL CURRENTS -- THE WEAK LEFT HAND -- GLASHOW AND NOBELITIS -- Chapter 15 - WARMLY ADMIRED, RICHLY DESERVED -- REPRISE: 1967 -- FROM 'T HOOFT TO NOBEL -- W. A. R. D. -- Chapter 16 - THE BIG MACHINE -- MAKING HEAVY LIGHT -- THE END OF HIGH-ENERGY PHYSICS? -- LEP -- THE LHC -- Chapter 17 - TO INFINITY AND BEYOND -- THE ROAD TO UNITY -- ONE HUNDRED YEARS -- A SIGHT OF HIGGS -- SUPERSYMMETRY -- BIG BANG DAY -- EPILOGUE -- POSTSCRIPT -- GLOSSARY -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- Copyright Page.