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Physics and astrophysics
from the University of Chicago Press
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- Arabatzis, Theodore: Representing Electrons: A Biographical Approach to Theoretical Entities
- Beller, Mara: Quantum Dialogue: The Making of a Revolution
- Biagioli, Mario: Galileo’s Instruments of Credit: Telescopes, Images, Secrecy • Read an excerpt.
- Blay, Michel: Reasoning with the Infinite: From the Closed World to the Mathematical Universe
- Boyd, Richard N.: An Introduction to Nuclear Astrophysics
- Canales, Jimena: A Tenth of a Second: A History
- Chandrasekhar, S.: Truth and Beauty: Aesthetics and Motivations in Science
- Christianson, Gale E.: Edwin Hubble: Mariner of the Nebulae
- Collins, Harry: Gravity's Shadow: The Search for Gravitational Waves
- Crease, Robert P.: Making Physics: A Biography of Brookhaven National Laboratory, 1946-1972
- Cronin, James W.: Fermi Remembered • Read an excerpt.
- De Young, David S.: The Physics of Extragalactic Radio Sources
- Ekeland, Ivar: The Best of All Possible Worlds: Mathematics and Destiny
- Fine, Arthur: The Shaky Game
- Fritzsch, Harald: An Equation That Changed the World: Newton, Einstein, and the Theory of Relativity
- Galilei, Galileo: Sidereus Nuncius, or The Sidereal Messenger
- Galison, Peter: Image and Logic: A Material Culture of Microphysics
- Garfinkle, David: Three Steps to the Universe: From the Sun to Black Holes to the Mystery of Dark Matter
- Garwin, Laura: A Century of Nature: Twenty-One Discoveries that Changed Science and the World • Read excerpts from the book.
- Garwin, Richard L.: Megawatts and Megatons: The Future of Nuclear Power and Nuclear Weapons
- Geroch, Robert: General Relativity from A to B
- Geroch, Robert: Mathematical Physics
- Geroch, Robert: Perspectives in Computation
- Hedman, Matthew: The Age of Everything: How Science Explores the Past • Read an excerpt.
- Helmholtz, Hermann von: Science and Culture: Popular and Philosophical Essays
- Hoddeson, Lillian: Fermilab: Physics, the Frontier, and Megascience
- Kaiser, David: Drawing Theories Apart: The Dispersion of Feynman Diagrams in Postwar Physics
- Kuhn, Thomas S.: Black-Body Theory and the Quantum Discontinuity, 1894-1912
- Melia, Fulvio: Cracking the Einstein Code: Relativity and the Birth of Black Hole Physics
- Melia, Fulvio: Electrodynamics
- Morus, Iwan Rhys: When Physics Became King
- Murdin, Paul: Secrets of the Universe: How We Discovered the Cosmos
- North, John: Cosmos: An Illustrated History of Astronomy and Cosmology
- Osterbrock, Donald E.: Yerkes Observatory, 1892-1950: The Birth, Near Death, and Resurrection of a Scientific Research Institution
- Pielou, E. C.: The Energy of Nature
- Raffelt, Georg G.: Stars as Laboratories for Fundamental Physics: The Astrophysics of Neutrinos, Axions, and Other Weakly Interacting Particles
- Rolfs, Claus E.: Cauldrons in the Cosmos: Nuclear Astrophysics
- Rosner, Jonathan L.: Kaon Physics
- Schneider, Eric D.: Into the Cool: Energy Flow, Thermodynamics, and Life • Read an excerpt.
- Shulski, Martha: Climate of Alaska
- Smith, Crosbie: The Science of Energy: A Cultural History of Energy Physics in Victorian Britain
- Srinivasan, G.: From White Dwarfs to Black Holes: The Legacy of S. Chandrasekhar
- Staley, Richard: Einstein's Generation: The Origins of the Relativity Revolution
- Stanley, Matthew: Practical Mystic: Religion, Science, and A. S. Eddington
- Thorpe, Charles: Oppenheimer: The Tragic Intellect
- Tomonaga, Sin-itiro: The Story of Spin
- Vietri, Mario: Foundations of High-Energy Astrophysics
- Wald, Robert M.: Black Holes and Relativistic Stars
- Wald, Robert M.: General Relativity
- Warwick, Andrew: Masters of Theory: Cambridge and the Rise of Mathematical Physics
- Weinreich, Gabriel: Geometrical Vectors
- Welford, Walter T.: Useful Optics
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