David Bodanis

Sightseeing Scientist

The Travel Diaries of Albert Einstein: The Far East, Palestine & Spain, 1922–1923

By Ze'ev Rosenkranz (ed)

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May 2018 Issue

Tobie Mathew

Disaster by Design

Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy

By Serhii Plokhy

April 2001 Issue

Brenda Maddox

He Promised Her the Nobel Prize

Einstein in Love: A Scientific Romance

By Dennis Overbye

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March 2018 Issue

Uta Frith

Cracks in the Glass Ceiling

A Lab of One’s Own: Science and Suffrage in the First World War

By Patricia Fara

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February 2018 Issue

John Gribbin

Top of the Atomic Pile

The Last Man Who Knew Everything: The Life and Times of Enrico Fermi, Father of the Nuclear Age

By David N Schwartz

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March 2017 Issue

Richard Canning

Anatomy of a Disease

How to Survive a Plague: The Story of How Activists and Scientists Tamed AIDS

By David France

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December 2016 Issue

Gavin Weightman

Making Waves

Marconi: The Man Who Networked the World

By Marc Raboy

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August 2016 Issue

Lucy Moore

Halved Lives

The Radium Girls

By Kate Moore

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August 1981 Issue

Julian Rathbone

The Ultimate Work

Hello America

By J G Ballard

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April 2015 Issue

David Bodanis

A Few Nice Men

The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution

By Walter Isaacson

Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader

By Brent Schlender & Rick Tetzeli

LR

March 2015 Issue

John Gribbin

Unstable Particle

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

By Frank Close

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February 2009 Issue

Michael O’Brien

Class Action

In Reckless Hands: Skinner v Oklahoma and the Near-Triumph of American Eugenics

By Victoria F Nourse

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September 2008 Issue

John Cornwell

Plastic Fantastic

The Brain that Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science

By Norman Doidge

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February 2008 Issue

John Gribbin

Playing With Fire

American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J Robert Oppenheimer

By Kai Bird & Martin J Sherman

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November 2007 Issue

Walter Gratzer

Venter’s Version

A Life Decoded: My Genome – My Life

By J Craig Venter

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November 2007 Issue

Jeremy Lewis

Life in the Footnotes

As I Was Going to St Ives: A Life of Derek Jackson

By Simon Courtauld

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October 2007 Issue

Sujit Saraf

The Shock of the Bomb

The Shock of the Old: Technology in Global History since 1900

By David Edgerton

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August 2007 Issue

Lucy Lethbridge

Upstairs, Downstairs

Mrs Woolf and the Servants: The Hidden Heart of Domestic Service

By Alison Light

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August 2007 Issue

Dominic Sandbrook

Dark Content

Barbarism and Civilisation: A History of Europe in Our Time

By Bernard Wasserstein

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May 2012 Issue

Frank Close

Joint Efforts

How the Hippies Saved Physics: Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum Revival

By David Kaiser

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