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In this book of memoirs, the prominent French physicist and public figure of Jewish-Ukrainian descent, winner of the 1992 Nobel Prize in Physics, presents himself in different guises. George Sharpak (1924-2010) appears in various guises: as a member of the Resistance movement during the Second World War, as one of the founders of the European Centre for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva, as a tireless researcher, as a teacher, and as an ardent defender of the idea of the peaceful atom. The book contains a unique chronicle of elementary particle physics and valuable insights into the unity of art and science.