Analogies play a fundamental role in science. To understand how and why, at a given moment, a certain analogy was used, one has to know the specific, historical circumstances under which the new idea was developed. This book discusses a series of analogy effects in subatomic physics.

As such, besides its scientific aspects, the book constitutes an absorbing witness account of a holocaust survivor who subsequently illegally crossed the Iron Curtain to escape communist persecution.

1930-1945: My Countries, My Languages, My Family
Premonition of War
Nazism versus Communism
1945-1969: The Role of Analogy in Science
Prediction of the Isometric Shift
Anticipating Electroweak Unification? Bosonic Leptons: Anticipating Grand Unified Theories?
1969-1974: CERN
Statistical Concepts in High Energy Physics and Phase Transitions
Bonn: Looking for a Job, Citizenship, Ethnicity
USA: Indiana University - Superfluidity of Hadronic Matter
London: Imperial College - Prediction of Hot Spots in Elementary Particles
1974-1995: Professor at the Philipps Universitat, Marburg
Hydrodynamics in High-Energy Reactions
Solitons
Anticipating Strongly Interacting Quark Matter
Quantum Optical Analogies in Particle Physics
Bose-Einsten Correlations
Germany Coping with Its Past
The Marburg Einstein scandal
1995-present: Moving to Paris
Germany versus France
Anti-Semitism
Schools and Religion
and other chapters.