Recommendations from our site
“It’s a window on the process of discovery, a blow-by-blow account of a long wrangle with theory and evidence. Paul Steinhardt — a cosmologist fascinated by novel forms of matter — relates his indefatigable decades-long quest for an ‘impossible’ material, the quasicrystal, with Holmesian intensity…This is a book offering a real sense of the collaborative, generous-minded aspect of doing science.“ Read more...
The Best Science Books of 2019
Barbara Kiser, Science Writer
“Paul Steinhardt, a world-renowned physicist, takes us on a journey through the history of our understanding of crystals. He explains how scientific orthodoxy came to a firm view as to the sorts of structures nature would generate.” Read more...
The Royal Society Science Book Prize: the 2019 shortlist
Nigel Shadbolt, Technologist
Our most recommended books
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On the Origin of Species
by Charles Darwin -
Intelligent Life in the Universe
by Carl Sagan & Iosif Shklovsky -
The Elegant Universe
by Brian Greene -
The First Three Minutes
by Steven Weinberg -
A Brief History of Time
by Stephen Hawking -
The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
by Sam Kean
