Reading List and Links
Reading List
Bethe
Hans Bethe: Prophet of Energy by Jeremy Bernstein, 1967, Basic
Books
Bohr
Niels Bohr by Stefan Rozental, 1967, Amsterdam, North- Holland
Physics Publishing
Niels Bohr’s Times: In Physics, Philosophy and Polity by Abraham
Pais, Oxford University Press
Born
My Life: Recollection of a Nobel Laureate by Max Born
De Broglie
The Revolution in Physics by Louis de Broglie, 1969
Dirac
P aul Dirac: The Man and His Work by Abraham Pais, 1998, Oxford
University Press
Einstein
Albert Einstein: His Work and Influences on Our World by Leopold
Infeld, 1950, Scribner
Subtle Is the Lord: The Science and Life of Albert Einstein by
Abraham Pais, 1982, Oxford University Press
Einstein: The Life and Times by Ronald W. Clark, 1984, Avon
Einstein: A Life by Denis Brian, 1997, John Wiley & Sons
The Evolution of Physics by A. Einstein& L. Infeld, 1966,
Simon & Schuster
Fermi
Enrico Fermi, Physicist by Emilio Segre, 1970, University of
Chicago Press
Atoms in the Family, Laura Fermi, 1954, University of Chicago
Press
Feynman
Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman by James Gleick,
1992, Vintage Books
The Beat of a Different Drum: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman
by Jaddish, Mehra, 1994, Oxford University Press
Heisenberg
Uncertainty: The Life and Science of Werner Heisenberg by David
C. Cassidy
Physics and Beyond: Encounters and Conversations by Werner
Heisenberg, 1971, Harper & Row, 1971
Physics and Philosophy: The Revolution in Modern Science by
Werner Heisenberg
Landau
Landau, the Physicist and the Man: Recollections of L. D. Landau
by I. M. Khalatnikov
Von Neumann
John von Neumann: The Scientific Genius who Pioneered the Modern
Computer, Game Theory, Nuclear Deterrence and MuchMore by
Norman McCrea
Oppenheimer
Robert Oppenheimer, Letters and Recollections by Alice Kimball
Smith & Charles Weiner, 1980, Harvard University Press
J. Robert Oppenheimer: Shatterer of Worlds by Peter Goodchild
Uncommon Sense by J. R. Oppenheimer
Pauli
Writings on Physics and Philosophy by Wolfgang Pauli
Planck
Scientific Autobiography by Max Planck, 1949, Philosophical
Library
Dilemmas of an Upright Man: Max Planck and the Fortunes of German
Science by J. L. Heilbron
Rabi
Rabi: Scientist and Citizen with a New Preface by John S. Rigden
( not yet published)
Rutherford
Ernest Rutherford and the Atom by P. B. Moon, 1974, Priory Press
Rutherford by Mark Oliphant, 1972, Elsevier
Giant of the Atom: Ernest Rutherford by R. McKnown
Segre
A Mind Always in Motion: The Autobiography of Emilio Segre by
Emilio Segre
Schrodinger
Schrodinger: Life and Thought by Walter Moore, 1989, Cambridge
University Press
Teller
Edward Teller and the Development of the Hydrogen Bomb by John
Bankston
Memoirs: A Twentieth-Century Journey in Science and Politics by
Edward Teller
Wigner
Symmetries and Reflections by Eugene Wigner
Weisskopf
The Joy of Insight: Passions of a Physicists by Victor F.
Weisskopf, 1991, Basic Books
Physics in the Twentieth Century by Victor Weisskopf
Yukawa
Creativity and Intuition: A Physicist Looks East and West by
Hideki Yukawa, Translated by John Bester, 1973, Tokyo, Kodansha
General
The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes, 1988Touchstone
Press
Leo Szilard: His Version of the Facts by Spencer R. Weart &
Gertrude Weiss Szilard, 1978, MIT Press
Thirty Years that Shook Physics by George Gamow, 1966, Doubleday
Physics and Philosophy by Sir James Jeans, 1943, Cambridge
University Press
Men Who Made a New Physics: Physicists and the Quantum Theory by
Barbara Lovett Kline 1965, Thomas Y. Crowell The Genius of Science:
A Portrait Gallery of 20th Century Physicists by Abraham Pais,
1996, Oxford University Press
Golden Age of Theoretical Physics by Jagdish Mehtra, 2001,
World Scientific
Links
Biographies, Speeches, Photos of all Nobel Laureates from 1901
http://www.nobel.se /
http://www.slac.stanford.edu/library/nobel.html
History and Biographies of Scientists
http://www-groups.dcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/~history
http://www.aip.org/history
http://www.childrenofthemanhattanproject.org
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/databank/physastro.html
http://www.ethbib.ethz.ch/exhibit/pauli/index_e.html
http://www.aip.org/history/einstein/index.html
Photos of Physicists
http://www.th.physik.uni-frankfurt.de/~jr
Conferences
http://solvayins.ulb.ac.be/fixed/Physics.html
http://www.ethbib.ethz.ch/exhibit/pauli/konferenzen_e.html
http://www.aip.org/history/einstein/quantum1.htm
http://www4.nas.edu/arc.nsf/web/shelterisland?OpenDocument
http://www.sherryart.com/nano/shelter.html
http://www.aps.org/apsnews/0897/0808.html
Quantum Theory Primers
http://www-theory.chem.washington.edu/~trstedl/quantum/quantum.html
http://theory.uwinnipeg.ca/physics/quant/node1.html
http://www.users.totalise.co.uk/~idmon/quantind.htm
