Book tips

Several book titles are listed below that are interesting for anybody who wants to improve and extend their knowledge of physics. This is just a handful of the ever-growing flow of information dedicated to subatomic physics.


• Bais, Sander The Equations: Icons of Knowledge 
• Bais, Sander Very Special Relativity: An Illustrated Guide
• Bodanis, David Electric universe (well-written history of the electron)
• Brown, Dan Angels and Demons
• Feynman, Richard QED
• Feynman, Richard Surely you're joking Mr. Feynman
• Gell-Mann, Murray The quark and the Jaguar. Adventures in the Simple and theComplex (A true classic in physics by the Nobel laureat)
• Green, Brian The fabric of the cosmos
• Hawkings, Lucy & Stephen George's Secret Key to the Universe (children's book by the great Stephen Hawkings and his daughter)
• Infinitely CERN, memories from fifty years of research (1954-2004) (zie illustratie)
• Kaku, M. Hyperspace (Een vlot boek about modern physics)
• Krauss, L.M. Atom : an odyssey from the Big Bang to life on earth ... and beyond
• Lederman, Leon The God Particle (Must read!)
• Lindley, David Boltzmann's atom (gives great insight into a physician's life at the end of the 19th century)
• McEvoy, J.P. & Oscar Zarate Stephen Hawking for beginners (with loads of illustrations)
• Ne'eman, Yuval  & Yoram Kirch The particle hunters (Modern physics for VWO 6)
• Pais, Abraham Inward bound: Of matter and forces in the physical world
• Pais, Abraham Subtle is the Lord: The science and the life of Albert Einstein
• Pais, Abraham Niels Bohr's Times: In physics, philosophy, and polity
• Penrose, Roger The Road to Reality
• Riordan, Michael The hunting of the quark
• Smolin, Lee The trouble with physics
• Veltman, Martinus Facts and mysteries in elementary particle physics
• Weinberg, Steven The first three minutes: A Modern View Of The Origin Of The Universe (a fascinating account of atoms and everything surrounding them)