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Infinite Potential: The Life and Times of David Bohm

By F. David Peat

Climbing the Mountain: The Scientific Biography of Julian Schwinger

By Jagdish Mehra, Kimball Milton (, Department of Physics, University of Oklahoma)

Julian Schwinger: The Physicist, The Teacher, And The Man

By Jack Ng Yee (Univ Of North Carolina, USA)

Schroedinger: Life and Thought

By Walter Moore

Memoirs: A Twentieth Century Journey In Science And Politics

By Edward Teller, Judith Schoolery

Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics

By John Derbyshire

The Great Mathematical Problems: Marvels and Mysteries of Mathematics

By Stewart, Ian

Poincare's Prize: The Hundred-Year Quest to Solve One of Math's Greatest Puzzles

By George G. Szpiro

Ramanujan: The Man & the Mathematician

By S. R. Ranganathan

Journey Through Genius: The Great Theorems of Mathematics

The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics

By Leonard Susskind

The Shape of a Life: One Mathematician's Search for the Universe's Hidden Geometry

By Shing-Tung Yau, Steve Nadis

Dictionnaire de botanique illustré

By Jouy, Alain

Jacob Bekenstein: The Conservative Revolutionary

By Lars Brink (Chalmers University Of Technology, Sweden), Viatcheslav F Mukhanov (Univ Munchen, Germany), Eliezer Rabinovici (The Hebrew University Of Jerusalem, Israel), Kok Khoo Phua (Ntu, S'pore)

Buried Glory: Portraits of Soviet Scientists

By Istvan Hargittai (University Professor, University Professor, Institute of General and Analytical Chemistry, Budapest Technical University)

Judging Edward Teller

By Istvan Hargittai

Faust in Copenhagen: A Struggle for the Soul of Physics

By Gino Segre

Mathematics for engineers and applied scientists

By STANLEY CONYERS LENNOX

Science and the Akashic Field: An Integral Theory of Everything

By Ervin Laszlo

The Quark and the Jaguar: Adventures in the Simple and the Complex

By Professor Murray Gell-Mann (Santa Fe Inst USA)

Hitler's Scientists: Science, War, and the Devil's Pact

By John Cornwell

Marie Curie: A Life

By Susan Quinn

Cosmic Anger: Abdus Salam - The First Muslim Nobel Scientist

By Gordon Fraser

The Power Makers: Steam, Electricity and the Men Who Invented Modern America

By Maury Klein

All in Good Time: Reflections of a Watchmaker

By George Daniels

Journey to the Edge of Reason: The Life of Kurt Goedel

By Stephen Budiansky

Alvarez

By Alvarez

Half Life: The Divided Life of Bruno Pontecorvo, Physicist or Spy

By Frank Close

Geons, Black Holes, and Quantum Foam: A Life in Physics

By Kenneth Ford, John Archibald Wheeler (Princeton University)

A Force of Nature: The Frontier Genius of Ernest Rutherford

By Richard Reeves