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The Symbolic Universe: Geometry and Physics 1890-1930

This is a fascinating collection of papers presented at a 1996 conference at the UK Open University.

Pulsars as Astrophysical Laboratories for Nuclear and Particle Physics

The physics of neutron stars of which there are estimated to be about one billion in the Milky Way alone is covered, along with Strange quark matter when additional quarks come into play beyo...

A decade celebrated at Dubna

The Laboratory of Particle Physics of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia, is celebrating its 10th anniversary.

The Bible According to Einstein

James Gillies reviews in 1999 The Bible According to Einstein.

How Martin Luther King almost came to Fermilab

At his 80th birthday event at Fermilab, former laboratory deputy director, Ned Goldwasser, recalled Fermilab's early days, when human rights were as important as protons.

Faces and Places

Faces and places section from the CERN Courier August 1999 issue.

The MATHEMATICA Book, Version 4,

Wolfgang Lerche reviews in 1999

Elementary Excitations in Solids

Based on an advanced course in the theory of solids at Illinois in 1961, this continues to fill the need to communicate the present view of a solid as a system of interacting particles that, under sui...

Conceptual Foundations of Quantum Mechanics

This volume offers a clear and comprehensive account of the fundamental physical implications of the quantum formalism, which deals with non-separability, hidden variable theories, measurement theorie...