Introduction
Chapter 1. The Boy from Potsdam
Chapter 2. At the Gymnasium: Father and Son
Chapter 3. Becoming a Medical Doctor
Chapter 4. Undiscovered
Chapter 5. Scientific Networking
Chapter 6. In the Private and the Public Eye
Chapter 7. The New Dispensation
Chapter 8. Unhappy Intermezzo in Bonn
Chapter 9. The Turning Point
Chapter 10. The New Angel
Chapter 11. The Relations of Science
Chapter 12. The Relations of Music
Chapter 13. Popularizing Science in Britain and Germany
Chapter 14. Learning to See the World
Chapter 15. Almost a Professor of Physics
Chapter 16: The Road to Berlin
Chapter 17. In the Capital of Geist
Chapter 18. The Burdens of Building Physics
Chapter 19. Among the Elite
Chapter 20. Kulturkampf in Science, I
Chapter 21. Kulturkampf in Science, II
Chapter 22. Anti-Helmholtz, Again
Chapter 23. In the Scientific Capitals of Europe
Chapter 24. Institutional Brilliance
Chapter 25. Celebrations
Chapter 26. Doyen
Chapter 27. Science, Art, and Standards Business
Chapter 28. Charismatic Leader
Chapter 29. Atlantic Crossings
Epilogue: Helmholtz in Modern German Memory