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Climbing the Mountain: The Scientific Biography of Julian Schwinger by Jagdish Mehra and Kimball Milton, Oxford, ISBN 0198506589. Climbing the Mountain is the first full-length biography of Julian Sch...
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Climbing the Mountain: The Scientific Biography of Julian Schwinger by Jagdish Mehra and Kimball Milton, Oxford, ISBN 0198506589. Climbing the Mountain is the first full-length biography of Julian Sch...
The Physics of Particle Detection by Dan Green, Cambridge Monographs on Particle Physics, Nuclear Physics and Cosmology, 361 pp, 0 521 66226 5, £65/$100. The 12th volume of the Cambridge Monograp...
Antimatter – the Ultimate Mirror by Gordon Fraser, Cambridge University Press, 0 521 65252 9, £16.95/$24.95. The correct prediction of antimatter by Paul Dirac is arguably the most astonish...
Strange Beauty: Murray Gell-Mann and the Revolution in 20th Century Physics by George Johnson (published by Knopf in the US: 0679437649, and by Jonathan Cape in the UK: 0224044273). Murray Gell-Mann b...
Quintessence, the Mystery of the Missing Mass in the Universe by Lawrence Krauss, Basic Books, 04650337402. Cosmology has a lot going for it at the moment. Unprecedented amounts of data characterizing...
The Quantum Theory of Fields III: Supersymmetry by Steven Weinberg, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0 521 66000 9 (hbk £32.50/$49.95). The third volume in Steven Weinberg’s very successful...
The Physics of Foams by Denis Weare and Stefan Hutzler, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0 19 850551 5 (£47.50, 250 pages). This is a specialized but wonderful monograph that begins: “Pour a bottl...
Weaving the Web – The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web by its Inventor by Tim Berners-Lee and Mark Fischetti, Harper, San Francisco, 1999, ISBN 0 060 251586 1 ($26). If...
Heavy Water and the Wartime Race for Nuclear Energy by Per F Dahl, Institute of Physics Publishing 0 7503 0633 5 (£35). Per Dahl is a physicist who has made significant contributions to the desig...
The New World of Mr Tompkins by George Gamow and Russell Stannard, Cambridge, ISBN 0 521 63009 6 (hbk £14.95). George Gamow was a sort of prototype Richard Feynman gifted, incisive, exuber...