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Different works will be useful for different topics;
consider your options first. Particularly helpful as introductions
to the wider literature: the bibliographic essays at the back of
Harman, Kragh, and Nye.
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Henry A. Boorse, Lloyd Motz, and Jefferson Hane Weaver, The
atomic scientists: a biographical history, John Wiley & Sons,
1989, QC773 .B66 1989
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Laurie M. Brown, Abraham Pais, and Sir Brian Pippard, ed.,
Twentieth century physics, 3 v., Institute of Physics, 1995, QC7
.B685 1995
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James T. Cushing, Philosophical concepts in physics:
the historical relation between philosophy and scientific theories,
Cambridge, 1998, QC6 .C85 1998
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Albert Einstein, Relativity: the special and the
general theory, Bonanza Books, 1961, QC6. E57
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P.M. Harman, Energy, force, and matter: the conceptual
development of nineteenth-century physics, Cambridge, 1982, QC7 .H257
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Werner Heisenberg, Physics and philosophy: the revolution
in modern science, Harper & Row, 1958, QC6 .H39
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Gerald Holton, Thematic origins of scientific thought:
Kepler to Einstein, rev. ed., Harvard, 1988, Q125 .H7221 1988
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Daniel J. Kevles, The physicists: the history of a scientific
community in modern America, Harvard, 1978,QC9.U5 .K48 1978
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Helge Kragh, Quantum generations: a history of physics
in the 20th century, Princeton, 1999, QC7 .K7 1999
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Sir Harrie Massey, The new age in physics, 2nd ed,
Basic Books, 1966, QC7 .M3 1966
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Mary Jo Nye, Before big science: the pursuit of
modern chemistry and physics, 1800-1940, Twayne, 1996, QD11 .N94 1996
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Abraham Pais, Inward bound: of matter and forces
in the physical world, Oxford, 1986, QC21.2 .P351 1986
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Abraham Pais, "Subtle is the Lord...": the science
and the life of Albert Einstein, Oxford, 1982, QC16.E5 .P26 1982
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Robert D. Purrington, Physics in the nineteenth century,
Rutgers, 1997, QC7 .P84 1997
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Robert Resnick and David Halliday, Basic concepts in relativity
and early quantum theory, 2nd ed., rev. printing, Macmillan, 1992,
QC173.55. R47
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Spencer R. Weart and Melba Phillips, ed., History of physics,
American Institute of Physics, 1985, QC7 .H694 1985
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Andrew Whitaker, Einstein, Bohr and the quantum dilemma,
Cambridge, 1996, QC174.12 .W48 1996
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