Absolute zero. Some like it cold.- Boltzmann. The genius of disorder.- Chandra. The journey of a star.- Dimensions. The story behind the scenery.- Euler. A mine of golden formulas.- Faraday. A portrait of the scientist as a young man.- Germain. Sophie's choice.- Harriott. Looking for Mr. Harry.- Ising. A magnetic modesty.- Jacobi. An elliptic thriller.- Kepler. Cannonballs and bee cells.- Landau. The Ten Commandments.- Maxwell. Fiat lux.- Numbers. Prime suspect.- Oppenheimer. An explosive plan.- Pauli. A strange couple.- Quantum. The garden of forking paths.- Rasetti. From atomic nuclei to Cambrian trilobites.- Spallanzani. The uncanny priest.- Touschek. The Lord of the Rings.- Ulam. The art of simulation.- Venus. The cruel goddess.- Weil. The Brahmin of Mathematics.- X-ray. Seeing the invisible.- Yang. Mirror of Deception.- Zwicky. Dark is the sky.