Physics World Book of the Year

Given by Physics World

104 oeuvres / 105 Items 37,397 Livres 1,395 critiques ½ 3.9
Physics World was launched in 1988 as the membership magazine of the Institute of Physics (est. 1874), one of the largest physical societies in the world. It is an international monthly magazine afficher plus covering all areas of physics, pure and applied, and is aimed at physicists in research, industry, physics outreach, and education worldwide. The Physics World Book of the Year has been awarded annually since 2009.

Each year's Top 10 books and Book of the Year are listed on the Physics World Wikipedia article. See also the LT Physics World Book of the Year shortlist page. afficher moins
Stages:
Tous, Winner (12), Special Mention (1), Shortlist (102)
Années:
Tous, 2019 (10), 2018 (10), 2017 (11), 2016 (10), 2015 (10), 2014 (11), 2013 (10), 2012 (3), 2011 (10), 2010 (10), 2009 (10)

Winner 12

ŒuvreAnnée
The Demon in the Machine par Paul Davies2019
Beyond Weird: Why Everything You Thought You Knew about Quantum Physics Is Different par Philip Ball2018
Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong – and the New Research That’s Rewriting The Story par Angela Saini2017
Why String Theory? par Joseph Conlon2016
Trespassing on Einstein's Lawn: A Father, a Daughter, the Meaning of Nothing, and the Beginning of Everything par Amanda Gefter2015
Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World par Mark Miodownik2014
Physics in Mind: A Quantum View of the Brain par Werner Loewenstein2013
How the Hippies Saved Physics: Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum Revival par David Kaiser2012
Engineering Animals: How Life Works par Mark Denny2011
Quantum Man: Richard Feynman's Life in Science par Lawrence M. Krauss2011
The Edge of Physics: A Journey to Earth's Extremes to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe par Anil Ananthaswamy2010
The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom par Graham Farmelo2009

Special Mention 1

ŒuvreAnnée
Everything You Know About Science Is Wrong par Matt Brown2017

Shortlist 102

ŒuvreAnnée
The Demon in the Machine par Paul Davies2019
The Universe Speaks in Numbers: How Modern Math Reveals Nature's Deepest Secrets par Graham Farmelo2019
The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes par Donald Hoffman2019
Underland: A Deep Time Journey par Robert Macfarlane2019
The Moon: A History for the Future (Economist Books) par Oliver Morton2019
Superior: The Return of Race Science par Angela Saini2019
Einstein's Unfinished Revolution: The Search for What Lies Beyond the Quantum par Lee Smolin2019
Catching Stardust: Comets, Asteroids and the Birth of the Solar System par Natalie Starkey2019
The Second Kind of Impossible: The Extraordinary Quest for a New Form of Matter par Paul J. Steinhardt2019
Fire, Ice, and Physics: The Science of Game of Thrones (The MIT Press) par Rebecca C. Thompson2019
Beyond Weird: Why Everything You Thought You Knew about Quantum Physics Is Different par Philip Ball2018
What Is Real?: The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics par Adam Becker2018
Ad Astra par Jack Campbell2018
Hello World: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms par Hannah Fry2018
Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray par Sabine Hossenfelder2018
The Dialogues: Conversations about the Nature of the Universe (The MIT Press) par Clifford V. Johnson2018
When the Uncertainty Principle Goes to 11: Or How to Explain Quantum Physics with Heavy Metal par Philip Moriarty2018
The Order of Time par Carlo Rovelli2018
Treknology: The Science of Star Trek from Tricorders to Warp Drive par Ethan Siegel2018
Exact Thinking in Demented Times: The Vienna Circle and the Epic Quest for the Foundations of Science par Karl Sigmund2018
Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong – and the New Research That’s Rewriting The Story par Angela Saini2017
We Have No Idea: A Guide to the Unknown Universe par Jorge Cham2017
Not a Scientist: How Politicians Mistake, Misrepresent, and Utterly Mangle Science par Dave Levitan2017
The Secret Science of Superheroes par Mark Lorch2017
Mapping the Heavens: The Radical Scientific Ideas That Reveal the Cosmos par Priyamvada Natarajan2017
The Death of Expertise: The Campaign against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters par Thomas M. Nichols2017
Marconi: The Man Who Networked the World par Marc Raboy2017
Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race par Margot Lee Shetterly2017
The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars par Dava Sobel2017
Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies par Geoffrey West2017
Why String Theory? par Joseph Conlon2016
The Jazz of Physics: The Secret Link Between Music and the Structure of the Universe par Stephon Alexander2016
Storm in a Teacup: The Physics of Everyday Life par Helen Czerski2016
Big Science: Ernest Lawrence and the Invention that Launched the Military-Industrial Complex par Michael Hiltzik2016
Strange Glow: The Story of Radiation par Timothy J. Jorgensen2016
Cosmos: The Infographic Book of Space par Stuart Lowe2016
Spooky Action at a Distance: The Phenomenon That Reimagines Space and Time--and What It Means for Black Holes, the Big Bang, and Theories of Everything par George Musser2016
Goldilocks and the Water Bears: The Search for Life in the Universe (Bloomsbury Sigma) par Louisa Preston2016
Reality Is Not What It Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity par Carlo Rovelli2016
The Pope of Physics: Enrico Fermi and the Birth of the Atomic Age par Gino Segré2016
Trespassing on Einstein's Lawn: A Father, a Daughter, the Meaning of Nothing, and the Beginning of Everything par Amanda Gefter2015
Physics on your feet : Berkeley graduate exam questions, or, Ninety minutes of shame but a PhD for the rest of your life! par Dmitry Budker2015
Half-Life: The Divided Life of Bruno Pontecorvo, Physicist or Spy par Frank Close2015
Beyond: Our Future in Space par Chris Impey2015
The Water Book par Alok Jha2015
Life on the Edge: The Coming of Age of Quantum Biology par Johnjoe McFadden2015
Monsters: The Hindenburg Disaster and the Birth of Pathological Technology par Ed Regis2015
Tunnel Visions: The Rise and Fall of the Superconducting Super Collider par Michael Riordan2015
The Copernicus Complex: Our Cosmic Significance in a Universe of Planets and Probabilities par Caleb Scharf2015
Atoms Under the Floorboards: The Surprising Science Hidden in Your Home par Chris Woodford2015
Wizards, Aliens, and Starships: Physics and Math in Fantasy and Science Fiction par Charles L. Adler2014
Serving the Reich: the struggle for the soul of physics under Hitler par Philip Ball2014
Five Billion Years of Solitude: The Search for Life Among the Stars par Lee Billings2014
Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters par Kate Brown2014
Smashing Physics: Inside the World’s Biggest Experiment par Jon Butterworth2014
The Sound Book: The Science of the Sonic Wonders of the World par Trevor Cox2014
The Perfect Theory: A Century of Geniuses and the Battle over General Relativity par Pedro G. Ferreira2014
Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World par Mark Miodownik2014
Einstein and the Quantum: The Quest of the Valiant Swabian par A. Douglas Stone2014
Island on Fire: the Extraordinary Story of Laki, the Forgotten Volcano that Turned Eighteenth-Century Europe Dark par Alexandra Witze2014
Physics in Mind: A Quantum View of the Brain par Werner Loewenstein2013
The Spark of Life: Electricity in the Human Body par Frances Ashcroft2013
The Particle at the End of the Universe: How the Hunt for the Higgs Boson Leads Us to the Edge of a New World par Sean M. Carroll2013
Hans Christian Orsted: Reading Nature's Mind par Dan Ch. Christensen2013
Churchill's Bomb: How the United States Overtook Britain in the First Nuclear Arms Race par Graham Farmelo2013
Robert Oppenheimer: Inside the Centre par Ray Monk2013
The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets par Simon Singh2013
La renaissance du Temps - Pour en finir avec la crise de la physique par Lee Smolin2013
Le minimum théorique par Leonard Susskind2013
Weird Life: The Search for Life That Is Very, Very Different from Our Own par David Toomey2013
A Hole at the Bottom of the Sea: The Race to Kill the BP Oil Gusher par Joel Achenbach2012
Life's Ratchet: How Molecular Machines Extract Order from Chaos par Peter M. Hoffmann2012
Engineering Animals: How Life Works par Mark Denny2011
Quantum Man: Richard Feynman's Life in Science par Lawrence M. Krauss2011
Measure of the Earth: The Enlightenment Expedition That Reshaped Our World par Larrie D. Ferreiro2011
Réalité cachée, La : Les univers parallèles et les lois du cosmos par Brian Greene2011
Lab Coats in Hollywood: Science, Scientists, and Cinema par David A. Kirby2011
Rising Force: The Magic of Magnetic Levitation par James D. Livingston2011
Modernist Cuisine (French) par Nathan Myhrvold2011
The 4 Percent Universe: Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and the Race to Discover the Rest of Reality par Richard Panek2011
Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie: A Tale of Love and Fallout par Lauren Redniss2011
Hindsight and Popular Astronomy par Alan B. Whiting2011
The Edge of Physics: A Journey to Earth's Extremes to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe par Anil Ananthaswamy2010
How It Ends: From You to the Universe par Chris Impey2010
Newton and the Counterfeiter: The Unknown Detective Career of the World's Greatest Scientist par Thomas Levenson2010
How to Teach Physics to Your Dog par Chad Orzel2010
Coming Climate Crisis? Consider the Past, Beware the Big Fix par Claire L. Parkinson2010
The Quants: How a New Breed of Math Whizzes Conquered Wall Street and Nearly Destroyed It par Scott Patterson2010
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void par Mary Roach2010
The Tunguska Mystery par Vladimir Rubtsov2010
Massive: The Missing Particle That Sparked the Greatest Hunt in Science par Ian Sample2010
Lake Views: This World and the Universe par Steven Weinberg2010
The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom par Graham Farmelo2009
The First War of Physics: The Secret History of the Atom Bomb, 1939-1949 par Jim Baggott2009
13 Things That Don't Make Sense: The Most Baffling Scientific Mysteries of Our Time par Michael Brooks2009
First Principles: The Crazy Business of Doing Serious Science par Howard Burton2009
Perfect Rigor: A Genius and the Mathematical Breakthrough of the Century par Masha Gessen2009
Lives in Science: How Institutions Affect Academic Careers par Joseph C. Hermanowicz2009
The Physics of Rugby par Trevor Lipscombe2009
Oliver Heaviside: Maverick Mastermind of Electricity (History of Technology Series) par Basil Mahon2009
Deciphering the Cosmic Number: The Strange Friendship of Wolfgang Pauli and Carl Jung par Arthur I. Miller2009
Plastic Fantastic: How the Biggest Fraud in Physics Shook the Scientific World (Macmillan Science) par Eugenie Samuel Reich2009

Descriptions

Physics World was launched in 1988 as the membership magazine of the Institute of Physics (est. 1874), one of the largest physical societies in the world. It is an international monthly magazine covering all areas of physics, pure and applied, and is aimed at physicists in research, industry, physics outreach, and education worldwide. The Physics World Book of the Year has been awarded annually since 2009.

Each year's Top 10 books and Book of the Year are listed on the Physics World Wikipedia article. See also the LT Physics World Book of the Year shortlist page. (English, Member-written)
See:
The LT Physics World Book of the Year page.
The Wikipedia list of the Physics World Top 10 books and Book of the Year. (English, Member-written)

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