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Five essential history of physics books
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Life Atomic: A History of Radioisotopes in Science and Medicine - by Angela N. H. Creager
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Masters of Theory: Cambridge and the Rise of Mathematical Physics - by Andrew Warwick
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China and Albert Einstein: The Reception of the Physicist and His Theory in China, 1917-1979 - by Danian Hu
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Drawing Theories Apart: The Dispersion of Feynman Diagrams in Postwar Physics - by David Kaiser
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Leviathan and the Air-Pump: Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life Paperback - by Steven Shapi & Simon Schaffer
Okay, honestly, I didn’t read any of them, though they look very nice and are already on my list. There are many more of course, let me add just one I think is a key piece of the history of modern physics, i.e. the physics responsible of almost everything what any of you, dear readers, can see around you… the story of the great physics cooked during the convulse XX century, from the perspective of a semi-autistic character and yet an essential protagonist of the history:
- The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom Paperback - by Graham Farmelo