October 2021 Issue John Gribbin 1921: A Space Odyssey The Man from the Future: The Visionary Life of John von Neumann By Ananyo Bhattacharya LR
May 2020 Issue John Gribbin She Broke the Galactic Ceiling What Stars are Made Of: The Life of Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin By Donovan Moore LR
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 LR
December 2016 Issue Gavin Weightman Making Waves Marconi: The Man Who Networked the World By Marc Raboy LR
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 LR
February 2008 Issue John Gribbin Playing With Fire American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J Robert Oppenheimer By Kai Bird & Martin J Sherman LR
November 2007 Issue Jeremy Lewis Life in the Footnotes As I Was Going to St Ives: A Life of Derek Jackson By Simon Courtauld LR
July 2012 Issue Patrick Marnham Shadow of the Bomb Keeper of the Nuclear Conscience: The Life and Work of Joseph Rotblat By Andrew Brown 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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