The first part of the book is the legendary works of the outstanding Soviet physicist Matthew Bronstein .. Fascinating and accessible, he talks about why helium, which is a component of many earth minerals, was found not on Earth, but on the Sun and what fantastic inventions were created on the way to the “solar substance” .. How did Wilhelm Conrad Rntgen accidentally make a discovery that turned the scientific world upside down and brought him the first ever Nobel Prize in physics and why he called his discovery X-rays? Who invented radio anyway: Alexander Popov or Guglielmo Marconi and what message became the world's first broadcast radio broadcast The second part of the book is a story about the tragic fate of Matvey Bronshtein and his wife Lydia Chukovsky: memoirs, articles, diaries, poems, transcripts of interrogations, criminal cases and other documents of the era.