The Physicist's Library


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image of NGC 5364 Recently, Dr. Alexander submitted a list at an SPS meeting of books he would recommended for any Physicist's library. Here is that list:
  • The New World of Mr. Tompkins by George Gamow and Russell Stannard
  • Five Equations That Changed the World by Michael Guillen
  • The Making of the Atom Bomb by Richard Rhodes
  • The Dancing WuLi Master by Gary Zukav
  • Leadership and the New Science by Margaret Wheatley
  • Tuxedo Park by Jennet Conant
  • Godel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter
  • Physics and Microphysics by Louis deBroglie
  • Physics and Philosophy by Werner Hesienberg
  • Thirty Years that Shook Physics by George Gamow

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  • Quote of the month: "You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it w within himself."
    ---Galileo Galilei


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