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Léon Rosenfeld: Physics, Philosophy, and Politics in the Twentieth CenturyBy Anja Skaar JacobsenWorld ScientificHardback: £56 E-book: £69 The life of Léon Rosenfeld (1904–197...
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Festive Bookshelf It will soon be time for many of us to spend some time with friends and family, after an exciting year that saw the discovery at CERN of a new particle consistent with being the long...
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Advanced Topics in Quantum Field Theory: A Lecture CourseBy M ShifmanCambridge University PressHardback: £45 $80 E-book: $64 Many interesting developments have taken place in quantum field theory...
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The Quantum Exodus: Jewish Fugitives, the Atomic Bomb, and the HolocaustBy Gordon FraserOxford University PressHardback: £25 Don’t be misled by the title of this book. It contains a surpris...
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Time MachinesBy Stanley Greenberg; Introduction by David C CassidyHirmer Verlag Hardback: €39.90 SwFr53.90 £39.95 $59.95 The American photographer Stanley Greenberg travelled 130,000 k...
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Summer Bookshelf Summer is the season of conferences for physicists, with holidays squeezed in where possible. This year many particle physicists have been working hard on preparing the latest results...
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CERN’s accelerators, experiments and international integration 1959–2009. The European Physical Journal H 36 (4).By Herwig Schopper et al. (ed.) Springer In 2009, CERN’s Proton Synch...
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L’enigma dei raggi cosmici. Le più grandi energie dell’ universoBy Alessandro De AngelisSpringerPaperback: £19.99 €24.44 In telling the story of “the enigma of cosmic...
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Books received Weimar Culture and Quantum Mechanics: Selected Papers by Paul Forman and Contemporary Perspectives on the Forman ThesisBy Cathryn Carson, Alexei Kojevnikov and Helmuth Trischler (e...
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Radioactivity: A History of a Mysterious ScienceBy Marjorie C MalleyOxford University PressHardback: £14.99 $21.95 Between 1899 and 1902, Polish physicist Marie Curie processed 100 kg of rad...
