Voyage through time: walks of life to the Nobel Prize

First steps : on the banks of the Nile

The gate to science : the Alexandria years

The American encounter : Independence in Philadelphia

California gold : from Berkeley to Pasadena

The invisible atom : close-up at Caltech

The race against time : six millennia to femtotime

Time and matter : the femtouniverse in perspective

On the road to Stockholm : festivities and fairy tales

A personal vision : the world of the have-nots

Walks to the future : my hope for Egypt and America

Epilogue : success, is there a formula?