Introduction -- Glossary -- Nobel prizes in physics -- The path of post-war physics / Catherine Westfall and John Krige -- Cosmic rain / W. O. Lock -- First accelerator fruits / Nicholas P. Samios -- The three-quark picture / Yuval Ne'eman -- Finding the internal structures of the proton and neutron / Jerome I. Friedman and Henry W. Kendall -- Gauge theories / M. Veltman -- Unexpected windfall / Roy F. Schwitters -- Weak interactions / Christine Sutton -- Hunting the carriers of the weak force / Carlo Rubbia -- Quark mixing and CP violation / Ahmed Ali and Boris Kayser -- Quark glue / Sau Lan We -- How the standard model works / Guido Altarelli -- The top quark / Melvyn Schochet -- The standard model and beyond / Graham G. Ross -- The tools: accelerators / E. J. N. Wilson -- The tools: detectors / David H. Saxon -- Particle physics and cosmology / John Ellis -- Big bang dynamics / Qaisar Shafi -- Recent advances in astronomy / A. C. Fabian.