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The Particle at the End of the Universe: Winner of the Royal Society Winton Prize

By Sean Carroll

The Hunt for Vulcan: How Albert Einstein Destroyed a Planet and Deciphered the Universe

By Thomas Levenson

Genius; Great Inventors & their Creations

By Jack Challoner

Mapping the Darkness: The Visionary Scientists Who Unlocked the Mysteries of Sleep

By Kenneth Miller

Darwin Among the Machines

By George Dyson

Pierre-Simon Laplace, 1749-1827: A Life in Exact Science

By Charles Coulston Gillispie

At Home in the Universe

By John Archibald Wheeler

Isaac Newton: Adventurer in Thought

By A. Rupert Hall

Niels Bohr's Times

By Abraham Pais

Gods and Robots: Myths, Machines, and Ancient Dreams of Technology

By Adrienne Mayor

Einstein: His Life and Universe

By Walter Isaacson

American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer

By Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin

Brilliant Lives: The Clerk Maxwells and the Scottish Enlightenment

By John W. Arthur

The Biggest Ideas in the Universe 1: Space, Time and Motion

By Sean Carroll

Remarkable Mathematicians: From Euler to von Neumann

By Ioan James (University of Oxford)

The Particle at the End of the Universe: Winner of the Royal Society Winton Prize

By Sean Carroll

A Prisoner's Dilemma

By William Poundstone

Out of the Shadow of a Giant: How Newton Stood on the Shoulders of Hooke and Halley

By John Gribbin, Mary Gribbin

Is Science Necessary?

By M. F. Perutz

The Universe Speaks in Numbers: How Modern Maths Reveals Nature's Deepest Secrets

By Graham Farmelo

Albert Einstein's Vision: Remarkable Discoveries That Shaped Modern Science

By Barry R. Parker

To Explain the World: The Discovery of Modern Science

By Steven Weinberg (University of Texas Austin)

I Am a Mathematician

By Norbert Wiener (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Ex-Prodigy: My Childhood and Youth

By Norbert Wiener (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Building The H Bomb: A Personal History

By Kenneth W Ford (Retired Director, American Inst Of Physics, USA)

Dark Sun (Sloan Technology Series)

By Rhodes

The Ascent of Gravity: The Quest to Understand the Force that Explains Everything

By Marcus Chown

Breakthrough: Spectacular stories of scientific discovery from the Higgs particle to black holes

By Marcus Chown

Bright Earth: The Invention of Colour

By Philip Ball

Darwin's Ghosts: The Secret History of Evolution

By Rebecca Stott