| Preface | p. 9 |
| Origins | p. 11 |
| Atoms | p. 14 |
| Waves | p. 17 |
| Quanta | p. 19 |
| Quantumalia: Before and After Democritus | p. 21 |
| Quantumalia: Titus Lucretius Carus | p. 22 |
| Quantumalia: Isaac Newton on Atoms | p. 24 |
| Spectra | p. 25 |
| Ions | p. 28 |
| Radiant Matter | p. 29 |
| Atoms, Electrons, Waves | p. 32 |
| Quantumalia: Discovery of Spectral Analysis | p. 33 |
| Quantumalia: The Beginnings of Television | p. 34 |
| Quantumalia: William Crookes | p. 35 |
| Quantumalia: Kinetic Theory of Gases | p. 36 |
| Quantumalia: Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov | p. 37 |
| The Planetary Atom | p. 40 |
| Spectral Series | p. 41 |
| Photons | p. 44 |
| Victory of Atomistics | p. 47 |
| Quantumalia: The Indivisible Atom | p. 48 |
| Quantumalia: The Diffraction Grating | p. 49 |
| Quantumalia: Just What Hath Rutherford Wrought? | p. 50 |
| Quantumalia: Light Pressure | p. 51 |
| Pre-Bohr Times | p. 52 |
| The Bohr Atom | p. 53 |
| Post-Bohr Times | p. 56 |
| Formal Model of the Atom | p. 57 |
| Quantumalia: Niels Henrik David Bohr | p. 60 |
| Quantumalia: Experimental Proof of Bohr's Postulates | p. 61 |
| Teachings of the Ancients | p. 64 |
| First Attempts | p. 64 |
| Elements and Atoms | p. 67 |
| Table of Elements | p. 69 |
| The Periodic Law | p. 70 |
| Quantumalia: Atoms and People | p. 74 |
| Ideas | p. 77 |
| Contemporaries Comment on Bohr's Theory | p. 80 |
| Phenomenon, Image, Concept, Formula | p. 81 |
| Heisenberg's Matrix Mechanics | p. 83 |
| Quantumalia: The Foundation of Physics | p. 86 |
| Louis de Broglie | p. 89 |
| Matter Waves | p. 90 |
| Optical-Mechanical Analogy | p. 92 |
| Schrodinger's Wave Mechanics | p. 93 |
| Quantumalia: The Life of Boscovich... | p. 95 |
| Quantumalia: ...and His Atom | p. 96 |
| Quantumalia: Paul Ehrenfest (1880-1933) | p. 97 |
| Schrodinger's Equation | p. 101 |
| The Meaning of the [Psi] Function | p. 102 |
| The Image of the Atom | p. 103 |
| Quantum Truth | p. 105 |
| Quantumalia: Compton's Experiment | p. 106 |
| Quantumalia: Electron Diffraction | p. 109 |
| Wave-Particle Duality | p. 110 |
| Uncertainty Relation | p. 111 |
| Complementarity Principle | p. 113 |
| Quantumalia: Duality and Uncertainty | p. 117 |
| Quantumalia: Poets and the Complementarity Principle | p. 118 |
| Heads or Tails and Target Shooting | p. 120 |
| Electron Diffraction | p. 122 |
| Probability Waves | p. 123 |
| Electron Waves | p. 124 |
| The Atom and Probability | p. 125 |
| Probability and Atomic Spectra | p. 126 |
| Causality and Chance, Probability and Certainty | p. 127 |
| Quantumalia: People, Events, Quanta | p. 129 |
| What is an Atom? What is Quantum Mechanics? | p. 136 |
| Physical Reality | p. 138 |
| Quantumalia: In Search of the Last Concepts | p. 141 |
| Results | p. 145 |
| Wilhelm Konrad Rontgen | p. 147 |
| Antoine Henri Becquerel | p. 149 |
| Pierre and Marie Curie | p. 151 |
| Ernest Rutherford and Frederick Soddy | p. 152 |
| The Energy of Radium | p. 155 |
| Quantumalia: X ray Waves | p. 155 |
| The Chemistry of Radioelements | p. 158 |
| Isotopes | p. 159 |
| Uranium Family | p. 161 |
| Stable Isotopes | p. 162 |
| Radioactive Decay Energy | p. 163 |
| Nuclear Binding Energy | p. 166 |
| Quantumalia: Uranium | p. 167 |
| Quantumalia: Earth and Radium | p. 168 |
| Quantumalia: Knights of the Fifth Decimal Place | p. 168 |
| Probing into the Nucleus | p. 170 |
| The Neutron | p. 172 |
| Artificial Radioactivity | p. 173 |
| Slow Neutrons | p. 174 |
| Nuclear Fission | p. 176 |
| Quantumalia: Letters about Fission | p. 178 |
| Tunnel Effect | p. 180 |
| Effective Cross-sections of Reactions | p. 184 |
| Neutron Cross-sections | p. 185 |
| Nuclear Fission | p. 188 |
| Quantumalia: Labelled Atoms | p. 189 |
| Quantumalia: Radiocarbon Dating | p. 190 |
| Chain Reaction | p. 193 |
| Nuclear Reactor | p. 198 |
| Quantumalia: Spontaneous Fission of Uranium | p. 200 |
| Quantumalia: The Natural Nuclear Reactor at Oklo | p. 200 |
| Atomic Energy | p. 203 |
| Plutonium | p. 204 |
| The Atomic Bomb | p. 206 |
| The Atomic Problem | p. 208 |
| Quantumalia: A Chronology of the Atomic Era | p. 209 |
| Quantumalia: Soddy on Atomic Energy | p. 214 |
| Solar Light | p. 218 |
| Crucibles of Elements | p. 220 |
| The Fate of the Sun | p. 223 |
| The Sun, Life, and Chlorophyll | p. 225 |
| Quantumalia: Life under the Sun | p. 228 |
| Quantumalia: A Sun on Earth | p. 231 |
| Quantumalia: Quanta Around Us | p. 231 |
| Reflections | p. 233 |
| Inception of the Scientific Method | p. 236 |
| Essence of the Scientific Method and its Development | p. 238 |
| Truth and Completeness of the Scientific Picture of the World | p. 240 |
| Science and Humanity | p. 242 |
| Boundaries of the Scientific Method | p. 243 |
| Science and Art | p. 244 |
| Future of Science | p. 247 |
| Epilogue | p. 248 |
| Subject Index | p. 249 |
| Name Index | p. 251 |
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