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GENESIS OF THE STANDARD MODEL: The Foundation of Modern Physics: The Legacy of Newton. Waves That Are Particles; Particles That Are Waves. Particles That Spin. Understanding Quantum Electrodynamics: Feynman to the Rescue. The Birth of Particle Physics: Pauli’s Neutrino, Fermi’s Weak Interaction, and Yukawa’s Pion. Learning to Live with Gell-Mann’s Quarks. Beautiful Symmetries Found and Lost. Emergence of the Standard Model. Flavor Physics. Our Current View of Nature’s Building Blocks: (What We Have Learned So Far). CP VIOLATION: THE ASYMMETRY BETWEEN MATTER AND ANTIMATTER: CP Violation in Kaon Decays. The Cabibbo–Kobayashi–Maskawa Matrix: CP Violation in the Standard Model. CP Violation with B Mesons. Checking the Standard Model: The Rho-Eta Plane. CP Violation: Where Do We Go from Here?. THE AMAZING STORY OF THE NEUTRINO: The Mystery of the Missing Neutrinos: Neutrino Oscillations. Neutrinos from the Sun. Neutrino Astronomy: A New Way to Study the Universe. Neutrino Mass and Physics beyond the Standard Model. CP Violation in Neutrino Mixing?. THE HUNT FOR THE MYSTERIOUS HIGGS: Why We Believe in the Higgs. What We Know from Experiment So Far. What We Hope to Learn from the LHC. Possibilities for the Future. Conclusion. Appendices.