2.1 Nobel prices in particle physics
 2.2 A time line
 2.3 Earliest stages
 2.4 fission and fusion
 2.5 Low-energy nuclear physics
 2.6 Medium-energy nuclear physics
 2.7 high-energy nuclear physics
 2.8 Mesons, leptons and neutrinos
 2.9 The sub-structure of the nucleon (QCD)
 2.10 The $W^{\pm }$and $Z$ bosons
 2.11 GUTS, Supersymmetry, Supergravity
 2.12 Extraterrestrial particle physics
  2.12.1 Balloon experiments
  2.12.2 Ground based systems
  2.12.3 Dark matter
  2.12.4 (Solar) Neutrinos