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This list is utterly incomplete and I am very willing to entertain suggestionsA) Elementary Particles The Elegant Universe, Brian Greene (Vintage 2000) The Fabric of Reality, by David Deutsch (Penguin) The hidden Domain, by Norman Freedman (The Woodhedge Group) Nothingness, by Henry Genz (Perseus) Superforce, by Paul Davies (Simon & Schuster 1984) B) Cosmology Space, Time and Gravity, by Robert M. Wald, (U. of Chicago Press 1997) A brief History of Time, by Stephen Hawking (bantam 1998) The Matter myth, by Paul Davies and John Gribbin, (Simon & Schuster 1992) The second of creation, by Robert Crease and Charles Mann, (Rutgers U. Press 1999) C) Cosmology (Historical approach) The dancing Universe, by Marcelo Gleiser (Penguin 1998) D) Relativity “Subtle is the lord…” by Abraham Pais, (Oxford U. Press 1982) The great Physicists from Galileo to Einstein, by George Gamow (Dover 1988) E = mc2, by David Bodamis (Berkeley U. Press) Relativity: The Special and General Theory, by Albert Einstein (Dover) General Relativity: From A to B, by Herbert Gerach (U. of Chicago Press) Understanding Einstein’s Theory of Relativity, by Stan Gibilisco (Dover) E) Quantum Mechanics The privilege of being a physicist, by Victor Weisskopf (W. H. Freeman 1989) The infamous Boundary: Seven decades of controversy in Quantum Physics, by David Wick (Birkhauser 1995) In search of Schrödinger’s cat, by John Gribbin (Bantam 1984) Schrödinger’s Kittens, by John Gribbin (Orion 1998) Quantum Physics: Illusions and Reality, by Alistair Rae (Cambridge U. Press) Alice in Quantumland, by Robert Gilmore (Springer) The new World of Mr. Tompkins, by George Gamow (Cambridge U. Press) The Physical Principles of Quantum Theory, by Werner Heisemberg (Dover) Quantum Reality: Beyond the New Physics, by Rich Herbert (Random House) The Quantum World, by J.C. Polkinghorne (Princeton Science Library) Taming the Atom: The emergence of the visible microworld, by H. C. Von Baeyer (Dover) Paradox Lost: Images of the quantum, by E. Wallance (Springer) Inward Bound, by Abraham Pais (Oxford University Press 1986) F) Complexity The quark and the jaguar, by Murray Gell-Mann, (Freeman 1994) Fragile Objects, by Philippe de Gennes and Jacques Badoz (Springer) G) History of Modern Physics Strange Beauty: Murray Gell-Mann and the Revolution in Twentieth Century Physics, by George Johnson (Vintage 2000) Genius: the life and science of Richard Feynman, by James Gleick (Vintage 1993) Ideas and Opinions, by Albert Einstein (Three Rivers Press) The meaning of it all, by Richard Feynman (Perseus) Thirty by George Gamow (Dover) |
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