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Nuclear Physics Books
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The Making of the Atomic Bomb (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as nuclear-physics)
avg rating 4.40 — 25,319 ratings — published 1986
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as nuclear-physics)
avg rating 4.36 — 72,422 ratings — published 2019
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as nuclear-physics)
avg rating 4.30 — 63,737 ratings — published 2005
Nuclear Physics (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as nuclear-physics)
avg rating 3.71 — 158 ratings — published 2009
Introductory Nuclear Physics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as nuclear-physics)
avg rating 3.78 — 208 ratings — published 1987
Before the Fallout: From Marie Curie to Hiroshima (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as nuclear-physics)
avg rating 4.28 — 341 ratings — published 2005
Atoms and Ashes: A Global History of Nuclear Disasters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as nuclear-physics)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,817 ratings — published 2022
Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as nuclear-physics)
avg rating 4.19 — 3,186 ratings — published 1995
Atomic Adventures: Secret Islands, Forgotten N-Rays, and Isotopic Murder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as nuclear-physics)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,166 ratings — published 2017
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as nuclear-physics)
avg rating 4.15 — 200,016 ratings — published 2016
Radiation: What It Is, What You Need to Know (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as nuclear-physics)
avg rating 3.71 — 255 ratings — published 2013
The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-physics)
avg rating 4.02 — 7,639 ratings — published 2009
Churchill's Bomb: How the United States Overtook Britain in the First Nuclear Arms Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-physics)
avg rating 3.75 — 189 ratings — published 2012
Radioactivity: A History of a Mysterious Science (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-physics)
avg rating 3.52 — 156 ratings — published 2011
The Devil Reached Toward the Sky: An Oral History of the Making and Unleashing of the Atomic Bomb (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-physics)
avg rating 4.53 — 2,264 ratings — published 2025
Giant of the Atom Ernest Rutherford (Library Binding)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-physics)
avg rating 4.50 — 2 ratings — published 1962
The Physics Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-physics)
avg rating 4.14 — 448 ratings — published 2020
The Shortest History of Our Universe: The Unlikely Journey from the Big Bang to Us (The Shortest History Series)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-physics)
avg rating 4.07 — 274 ratings — published
The Science Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-physics)
avg rating 4.18 — 1,420 ratings — published 2014
Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-physics)
avg rating 4.15 — 11,478 ratings — published 2014
Einstein's Genius Club: The True Story of a Group of Scientists Who Changed the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-physics)
avg rating 3.72 — 87 ratings — published 2011
Particle Physics: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-physics)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,289 ratings — published 2004
The Quantum Labyrinth: How Richard Feynman and John Wheeler Revolutionized Time and Reality (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-physics)
avg rating 4.08 — 754 ratings — published 2017
Black Holes: The Key to Understanding the Universe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-physics)
avg rating 4.07 — 2,834 ratings — published 2022
A Field Guide to Radiation (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-physics)
avg rating 3.78 — 77 ratings — published 2012
Manhattan Project: The Birth of the Atomic Bomb in the Words of Its Creators, Eyewitnesses and Historians. (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-physics)
avg rating 3.92 — 845 ratings — published 2007
Earth in Flames: How an Asteroid Killed the Dinosaurs and How We Can Avoid a Similar Fate From Nuclear Winter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-physics)
avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published
Chernobyl Roulette: War in the Nuclear Disaster Zone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-physics)
avg rating 4.07 — 554 ratings — published 2024
Trinity: The Treachery and Pursuit of the Most Dangerous Spy in History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-physics)
avg rating 4.16 — 196 ratings — published 2019
How to Drive a Nuclear Reactor (Springer Praxis Books)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-physics)
avg rating 4.53 — 251 ratings — published
Nuclear Physics: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-physics)
avg rating 4.16 — 172 ratings — published 2015
The Infinity Puzzle: Quantum Field Theory and the Hunt for an Orderly Universe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-physics)
avg rating 4.01 — 681 ratings — published 2011
Physics (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-physics)
avg rating 3.97 — 4,535 ratings — published -340
English Conversation Practice (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-physics)
avg rating 3.84 — 598 ratings — published 2001
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-physics)
avg rating 3.98 — 70,812 ratings — published 2014
White Holes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-physics)
avg rating 4.09 — 7,364 ratings — published 2023
The Maniac (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-physics)
avg rating 4.33 — 31,987 ratings — published 2023
The World According to Physics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-physics)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,586 ratings — published 2020
Nuclear War: A Scenario (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-physics)
avg rating 4.35 — 58,940 ratings — published 2024
Niels Bohr: A Life from Beginning to End (Biographies of Physicists)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-physics)
avg rating 4.22 — 144 ratings — published
2000 English Phrases & Sentences (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-physics)
avg rating 3.76 — 34 ratings — published 2010
S Chand B.Sc. Practical Physics (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-physics)
avg rating 3.54 — 28 ratings — published
Werner Heisenberg: A Life from Beginning to End (Biographies of Physicists)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-physics)
avg rating 4.23 — 166 ratings — published
Theoretical nuclear physics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-physics)
avg rating 4.33 — 3 ratings — published 1974
Yellow Dirt: An American Story of a Poisoned Land and a People Betrayed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-physics)
avg rating 4.13 — 738 ratings — published 2010
Question 7 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-physics)
avg rating 4.10 — 10,025 ratings — published 2023
Higgs - The Invention and Discovery of the ‘God Particle’ (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-physics)
avg rating 3.84 — 702 ratings — published 2012
Atomic Accidents: A History of Nuclear Meltdowns and Disasters: From the Ozark Mountains to Fukushima (ebook)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-physics)
avg rating 4.21 — 2,984 ratings — published 2014
Nuclear Physics for Babies (Baby University)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-physics)
avg rating 4.23 — 201 ratings — published
Einstein: His Life and Universe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-physics)
avg rating 4.16 — 211,128 ratings — published 2007
“It was quite the most incredible event that has ever happened to me in my life. It was almost as incredible as if you fired a 15-inch shell at a piece of tissue paper and it came back and hit you.
[Recalling in 1936 the discovery of the nucleus in 1909, when some alpha particles were observed instead of travelling through a very thin gold foil were seen to rebound backward, as if striking something much more massive than the particles themselves. He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for this discovery.]”
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[Recalling in 1936 the discovery of the nucleus in 1909, when some alpha particles were observed instead of travelling through a very thin gold foil were seen to rebound backward, as if striking something much more massive than the particles themselves. He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for this discovery.]”
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“The Fukushima nuclear complex went on to become the worst man-made engineering disaster in all of human history, outside of war.”
― Health Forensics
― Health Forensics
