Part 1 1. You shall see the ocean later: Growing up with older brothers 2. Not moonlight but rather sunlight: Well brought up in St Petersburg 3. Boltzmann and Columbus: Voyages of discovery in physics 4. Sailing the Sahara: Raised and constrained in St Petersburg 5. Between gods and humans: The Mecca of science 6. Don't ever smoke: A shared passion kindles love 7. Gleaning knowledge: Leiden canals, Russian novels and Gottingen mathematics 8.
Aversion and love: Seeking a sense of self 9. Ill at ease in Vienna: Study, discussions and strolling with a pram 10. First publications: Unemployed but working 11. Happy in Gottingen: Travelling, thinking, writing 12. Dangerous experiments: A Russian beard and feeling at home 13. A sombre honorary secretary: Arduous success in Russia 14. Rest, cleanliness and regularity: A daughter and a spa 15. It could have been so wonderful here: Inaccessible German-speaking universities 16.
A big, dear boy: Meeting Einstein 17. Coincidence and new opportunities: Farewell to St Petersburg Part 2 18. The man in the empty sphere: A flying start in Leiden 19. Water to the left, water to the right and water in between: Cosmopolitans in a provincial town 20. War and friends: Leiden 1914 21. Oasis in an ugly world: Work, war and Witte Rozenstraat 22. The red professor and the Russian princess: Happiness in wartime 23. Ups and downs: Bankruptcy, peace and another son 24.
Physics curator: Bohr as Rembrandt and Einstein as Holbein 25. Physics at the highest level: Just not for women 26. Einstein, Wassik and Russians: Concerns far and wide 27. Second rate and second class: Capitalism and socialism, men and women 28. Two worlds: American girls and 'male logic' 29. Warm people and thermodynamics: Paul's network and Tanya's science 30. Physics curator 2.0: Passionately interested in people's fate Part 3 31.
Falling behind: Mathematics in Moscow and mathematics as a blight 32. Escapism: Radios and travelling 33. Love is no longer enough: Nelly, Russia and the Nazis 34. Broken: A hopeless deed in a hopeless world Part 4 35. Loss after loss: If only we could just be eyes 36. Finding joy in less: Writing and thinking to the end Epilogue.