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Thermodynamics by Enrico Fermi 9781607962380
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £10.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781607962380Author Enrico FermiFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint < -
Thermodynamics by Enrico Fermi 9780486603612
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486603612Author Enrico FermiFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint < -
Nuclear Physics: A Course Given by Enrico Fermi at the University of Chicago Enrico Fermi 9780226243658
Booksplease Price: £36.05This volume presents, with some amplification, the notes on the lectures on nuclear physics given by Enrico Fermi at the University of Chicago in 1949. "The compilers of this publication may be... -
Elementary Particles by Enrico Fermi 9780300094749
Booksplease Price: £19.72Enrico Fermi, winner of the Nobel Prize for research in neutron physics, makes accessible to the general student of physics the most significant results of the field theories of elementary particles,... -
Elementary Particles by Enrico Fermi 9780300183184
Booksplease Price: £20.83First published in 1951, Enrico Fermi's Elementary Particles remains a valuable guide for physicists and scholars. Fermi's descriptions of the then-known particle universe and its nascent conceptual... -
Notes on Quantum Mechanics by Enrico Fermi 9780226243818
Booksplease Price: £27.62The lecture notes presented here in facsimile were prepared by Enrico Fermi for students taking his course at the University of Chicago in 1954. They provide examples of his ability to lecture simply... -
Enrico Fermi: The Obedient Genius by Giuseppe Bruzzaniti 9781493980697
Booksplease Price: £101.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781493980697Author Giuseppe BruzzanitiFormat PaperbackPage Count 348Impr -
Atoms in the Family: My Life with Enrico Fermi by Laura Fermi
Booksplease Price: £23.87In this absorbing account of life with the great atomic scientist Enrico Fermi, Laura Fermi tells the story of their emigration to the United States in the 1930s--part of the widespread movement of... -
Enrico Fermi: His Work and Legacy by Carlo Bernardini 9783540221418
Booksplease Price: £90.86Enrico Fermi's scientific work, noted for its originality and breadth, has had lasting consequences throughout modern science. Written by close colleagues as well as scientists whose fields were... -
Enrico Fermi: The Obedient Genius: 2016 by Giuseppe Bruzzaniti 9781493935314
Booksplease Price: £102.20This biography explores the life and career of the Italian physicist Enrico Fermi, which is also the story of thirty years that transformed physics and forever changed our understanding of matter and... -
Enrico Fermi: His Work and Legacy by Carlo Bernardini 9783642060533
Booksplease Price: £91.36Enrico Fermi's scientific work, noted for its originality and breadth, has had lasting consequences throughout modern science. Written by close colleagues as well as scientists whose fields were... -
The Last Man Who Knew Everything: The Life and Times of Enrico Fermi, Father of the Nuclear Age by David N. Schwartz
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £21.35In 1942, a team at the University of Chicago achieved what no one had before: a nuclear chain reaction. At the forefront of this breakthrough stood Enrico Fermi. Straddling the ages of classical... -
The Pope of Physics: Enrico Fermi and the Birth of the Atomic Age by Gino Segrè 9781250143792
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £16.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250143792Author Gino Segr Format PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint -
Majorana Case, The: Letters, Documents, Testimonies Erasmo Recami (State Univ At Bergamo, Italy) 9789811207693
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £40.76'The Majorana Case is beautifully written, with a pleasant style, and concatenates a great deal of material. A text that could only be written by those who know the life and work of Ettore Majorana... -
The Lost Notebook of Enrico Fermi: The True Story of the Discovery of Neutron-Induced Radioactivity by Francesco Guerra 9783319887432
Booksplease Price: £112.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783319887432Author Francesco GuerraFormat PaperbackPage Count 261Imprint
The Lost Notebook of Enrico Fermi: The True Story of the Discovery of Neutron-Induced Radioactivity by Francesco Guerra 9783319692531
Booksplease Price: £112.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783319692531Author Francesco GuerraFormat HardbackPage Count 261Imprint
Unstable Nature: Order, Entropy, Becoming by Auro Michele Perego 9781032599601
Booksplease Price: £60.08Unstable Nature is a popular science book offering a journey through the concept of instability in modern science with a focus on physics. Conceived for the curious reader wishing to go deeper in the...
Numbercrunch: 12 Ways Numbers Make Sense of the World by Professor Oliver Johnson 9781788708371
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £6.32'Lucid and entertaining. With barely an equation in sight, Numbercrunch makes a passionate case for how just a little bit more numeracy could help us all' - Tom Whipple, The Times'The perfect...
Numbercrunch: A Mathematician's Toolkit for Making Sense of Your World by Professor Oliver Johnson
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £12.70'Lucid and entertaining. With barely an equation in sight, Numbercrunch makes a passionate case for how just a little bit more numeracy could help us all' - Tom Whipple, The Times'The perfect...
The Manhattan Project (Revised): The Birth of the Atomic Bomb in the Words of Its Creators, Eyewitnesses, and Historians by Cynthia C. Kelly
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.82This updated edition of this essential collection of historic writings by the pre-eminent scientists and historians who bore witness to the birth of the modern nuclear age now includes President...
The Apocalypse Factory: Plutonium and the Making of the Atomic Age by Steve Olson
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.51It began with plutonium, the first element ever manufactured in quantity by humans. Fearing that the Germans would be the first to weaponise the atom, the United States marshalled brilliant minds and...
The Apocalypse Factory: Plutonium and the Making of the Atomic Age by Steve Olson 9780393634976
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £20.47It began with plutonium, the first element ever manufactured in quantity by humans. Fearing that the Germans would be the first to weaponise the atom, the United States marshalled brilliant minds and...
The Bomb: The Weapon That Changed the World by Didier Alcante
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £17.17From the Big Bang to Hiroshima, the incredible story of the most disastrous weapon ever invented On August 6, 1945, at 8:15 in the morning, an explosive charge of more than 15 kilotons fell on the...
109 East Palace: Robert Oppenheimer and the Secret City of Los Alamos by Jennet Conant
Booksplease Price: £14.45In 1943, Robert Oppenheimer, the brilliant, charismatic head of the Manhattan Project, recruited scientists to live as virtual prisoners of the U.S. government at Los Alamos, a barren mesa...
Fermi Remembered by James W. Cronin
Booksplease Price: £28.55Nobel laureate and scientific luminary Enrico Fermi (1901-54) was a pioneering nuclear physicist whose contributions to the field were numerous, profound, and lasting. Best known for his involvement...
Inventions, Inventors, & You: Grades 3-7 by Dianne Draze
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.48Inventions, Inventors, and You is a comprehensive unit that will not only acquaint students with significant inventions and inventors, but will also give them techniques for being more creative...
Superheavy: Making and Breaking the Periodic Table by Kit Chapman
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.37SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 AAAS/SUBARU SB&F PRIZE FOR EXCELLENCE IN SCIENCE BOOKS How new elements are discovered, why they matter and where they will take us. Creating an element is no easy...
Maths on the Back of an Envelope: Clever ways to (roughly) calculate anything by Rob Eastaway
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.58'Another terrific book by Rob Eastaway' SIMON SINGH 'A delightfully accessible guide to how to play with numbers' HANNAH FRY ...
University of Chicago Graduate Problems in Physics with Solutions Jeremiah A. Cronin 9780226121093
Booksplease Price: £28.55University of Chicago Graduate Problems in Physics covers a broad range of topics, from simple mechanics to nuclear physics. The problems presented are intriguing ones, unlike many examination...
A Brief Introduction to the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Life by Cesare Barbieri 9780367191948
Booksplease Price: £60.08This book provides an introduction, from the astronomical point of view of the author, to the exciting search for extra-terrestrial life, and an overview of the current status of research into...
True Genius: The Life and Work of Richard Garwin, the Most Influential Scientist You've Never Heard of by Joel N. Shurkin 9781633882232
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £12.29Richard Garwin was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama Called a "true genius" by Enrico Fermi, Richard Garwin has influenced modern life in far-reaching ways, yet...
The Early Universe by Edward W. Kolb
RRP: £75.99Booksplease Price: £70.59The Early Universe has become the standard reference on forefront topics in cosmology, particularly to the early history of the Universe. Subjects covered include primordial nubleosynthesis,...
A Brief Introduction to the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Life by Cesare Barbieri
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £24.38This book provides an introduction, from the astronomical point of view of the author, to the exciting search for extra-terrestrial life, and an overview of the current status of research into...
Energy: A Human History by Richard Rhodes 9781501105364
Booksplease Price: £15.35A "meticulously researched" (The New York Times Book Review) examination of energy transitions over time and an exploration of the current challenges presented by global warming, a surging world...
The Greatest Scientific Gamble: A Story of Rival Scientists, Impossible Odds, and the Atomic Bomb 9781611865592
RRP: £38.95Booksplease Price: £27.17During World War II, a group of physicists who had once been close friends found themselves on opposite sides of a deadly race. German scientist Werner Heisenberg and American physicists Robert...
Unearthing Fermi's Geophysics by Gino C. Segre 9780226805146
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £27.48Follow-for the first time-Nobel laureate and legendary teacher Enrico Fermi's lost course on geophysics. Nobel Prize-winning physicist Enrico Fermi (1901-54) is known for his work on experimental...
Guesstimation: Solving the World's Problems on the Back of a Cocktail Napkin by Lawrence Weinstein 9780691129495
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.21Guesstimation is a book that unlocks the power of approximation--it's popular mathematics rounded to the nearest power of ten! The ability to estimate is an important skill in daily life. More and...
Ettore Majorana: Unveiled Genius and Endless Mysteries: 2017 by Salvatore Esposito 9783319543185
Booksplease Price: £70.88This biography sheds new light on the life and work of physicist Ettore Majorana (including unpublished contributions), as well as on his mysterious disappearance in March 1938. Majorana is held by...
The Seven Measures of the World Piero Martin 9780300280111
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.86The fascinating stories behind the essential seven units of measurement that allow us to understand the physical world "Entertaining popular science and a literate tale of why things are as they are...
The Everett Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics: Collected Works 1955-1980 with Commentary by Jeffrey A. Barrett 9780691145075
RRP: £92.00Booksplease Price: £75.01Hugh Everett III was an American physicist best known for his many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics, which formed the basis of his PhD thesis at Princeton University in 1957. Although...