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December 2015 Issue Andrew Crumey In the Shadow of Mercury The Hunt for Vulcan: How Albert Einstein Destroyed a Planet and Deciphered the Universe By Thomas Levenson LR
March 2015 Issue John Gribbin Unstable Particle Half Life: The Divided Life of Bruno Pontecorvo, Physicist or Spy By Frank Close LR
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March 2007 Issue Arthur I Miller Unravelling String Theory The Trouble with Physics: The Rise of String Theory, the Fall of a Science, and What Comes Next By Lee Smolin LR
March 2005 Issue David Singmaster Thinking Big The Infinite Book: A Short Guide to the Boundless, Timeless and Endless By John D Barrow LR
November 2012 Issue John Gray Bright Shining Splinters Inside the Centre: The Life of J Robert Oppenheimer By Ray Monk LR
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