Physics World Book of the Year

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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 toon meer 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. toon minder
Stages:
Alle, Winner (12), Special Mention (1), Shortlist (102)
Jaren:
Alle, 2019 (10), 2018 (10), 2017 (11), 2016 (10), 2015 (10), 2014 (11), 2013 (10), 2012 (3), 2011 (10), 2010 (10), 2009 (10)

Winner 12

WerkJaar
The Demon in the Machine door Paul Davies2019
Beyond Weird: Why Everything You Thought You Knew about Quantum Physics Is Different door Philip Ball2018
Ondergeschikt door Angela Saini2017
Why String Theory? door Joseph Conlon2016
In Einsteins achtertuin een duizelingwekkende toer langs de mooiste ideeën uit de natuurkunde door Amanda Gefter2015
Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World door Mark Miodownik2014
Physics in Mind: A Quantum View of the Brain door Werner Loewenstein2013
How the Hippies Saved Physics: Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum Revival door David Kaiser2012
Engineering Animals: How Life Works door Mark Denny2011
Quantum Man: Richard Feynman's Life in Science door Lawrence M. Krauss2011
The Edge of Physics: A Journey to Earth's Extremes to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe door Anil Ananthaswamy2010
The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom door Graham Farmelo2009

Special Mention 1

WerkJaar
Everything You Know About Science Is Wrong door Matt Brown2017

Shortlist 102

WerkJaar
The Demon in the Machine door Paul Davies2019
The Universe Speaks in Numbers: How Modern Math Reveals Nature's Deepest Secrets door Graham Farmelo2019
The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes door Donald Hoffman2019
Benedenwereld door Robert Macfarlane2019
The Moon: A History for the Future (Economist Books) door Oliver Morton2019
Superior: The Return of Race Science door Angela Saini2019
Einstein's Unfinished Revolution: The Search for What Lies Beyond the Quantum door Lee Smolin2019
Catching Stardust: Comets, Asteroids and the Birth of the Solar System door Natalie Starkey2019
The Second Kind of Impossible: The Extraordinary Quest for a New Form of Matter door Paul J. Steinhardt2019
Fire, Ice, and Physics: The Science of Game of Thrones (The MIT Press) door Rebecca C. Thompson2019
Beyond Weird: Why Everything You Thought You Knew about Quantum Physics Is Different door Philip Ball2018
What Is Real?: The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics door Adam Becker2018
Ad Astra door Jack Campbell2018
Hello World: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms door Hannah Fry2018
Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray door Sabine Hossenfelder2018
The Dialogues: Conversations about the Nature of the Universe (The MIT Press) door Clifford V. Johnson2018
When the Uncertainty Principle Goes to 11: Or How to Explain Quantum Physics with Heavy Metal door Philip Moriarty2018
The Order of Time door Carlo Rovelli2018
Treknology: The Science of Star Trek from Tricorders to Warp Drive door Ethan Siegel2018
Exact Thinking in Demented Times: The Vienna Circle and the Epic Quest for the Foundations of Science door Karl Sigmund2018
Ondergeschikt door Angela Saini2017
We Have No Idea: A Guide to the Unknown Universe door Jorge Cham2017
Not a Scientist: How Politicians Mistake, Misrepresent, and Utterly Mangle Science door Dave Levitan2017
The Secret Science of Superheroes door Mark Lorch2017
Mapping the Heavens: The Radical Scientific Ideas That Reveal the Cosmos door Priyamvada Natarajan2017
The Death of Expertise: The Campaign against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters door Thomas M. Nichols2017
Marconi: The Man Who Networked the World door Marc Raboy2017
Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race door Margot Lee Shetterly2017
The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars door Dava Sobel2017
Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies door Geoffrey West2017
Why String Theory? door Joseph Conlon2016
The Jazz of Physics: The Secret Link Between Music and the Structure of the Universe door Stephon Alexander2016
Storm in a Teacup: The Physics of Everyday Life door Helen Czerski2016
Big Science: Ernest Lawrence and the Invention that Launched the Military-Industrial Complex door Michael Hiltzik2016
Strange Glow: The Story of Radiation door Timothy J. Jorgensen2016
Cosmos: The Infographic Book of Space door 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 door George Musser2016
Goldilocks and the Water Bears: The Search for Life in the Universe (Bloomsbury Sigma) door Louisa Preston2016
Reality Is Not What It Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity door Carlo Rovelli2016
The Pope of Physics: Enrico Fermi and the Birth of the Atomic Age door Gino Segré2016
In Einsteins achtertuin een duizelingwekkende toer langs de mooiste ideeën uit de natuurkunde door Amanda Gefter2015
Physics on your feet : Berkeley graduate exam questions, or, Ninety minutes of shame but a PhD for the rest of your life! door Dmitry Budker2015
Half-Life: The Divided Life of Bruno Pontecorvo, Physicist or Spy door Frank Close2015
Beyond: Our Future in Space door Chris Impey2015
The Water Book door Alok Jha2015
Hoe leven ontstaat op het snijvlak van biologie en kwantumleer door Johnjoe McFadden2015
Monsters: The Hindenburg Disaster and the Birth of Pathological Technology door Ed Regis2015
Tunnel Visions: The Rise and Fall of the Superconducting Super Collider door Michael Riordan2015
The Copernicus Complex: Our Cosmic Significance in a Universe of Planets and Probabilities door Caleb Scharf2015
Atoms Under the Floorboards: The Surprising Science Hidden in Your Home door Chris Woodford2015
Wizards, Aliens, and Starships: Physics and Math in Fantasy and Science Fiction door Charles L. Adler2014
Serving the Reich: the struggle for the soul of physics under Hitler door Philip Ball2014
Vijf miljard jaar eenzaamheid de zoektocht naar leven tussen de sterren door Lee Billings2014
Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters door Kate Brown2014
Smashing Physics: Inside the World’s Biggest Experiment door Jon Butterworth2014
The Sound Book: The Science of the Sonic Wonders of the World door Trevor Cox2014
De volmaakte theorie door Pedro G. Ferreira2014
Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World door Mark Miodownik2014
Einstein and the Quantum: The Quest of the Valiant Swabian door A. Douglas Stone2014
Island on Fire: the Extraordinary Story of Laki, the Forgotten Volcano that Turned Eighteenth-Century Europe Dark door Alexandra Witze2014
Physics in Mind: A Quantum View of the Brain door Werner Loewenstein2013
The Spark of Life: Electricity in the Human Body door 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 door Sean M. Carroll2013
Hans Christian Orsted: Reading Nature's Mind door Dan Ch. Christensen2013
Churchill's Bomb: How the United States Overtook Britain in the First Nuclear Arms Race door Graham Farmelo2013
Robert Oppenheimer: Inside the Centre door Ray Monk2013
The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets door Simon Singh2013
Time Reborn: From the Crisis in Physics to the Future of the Universe door Lee Smolin2013
The Theoretical Minimum: What You Need to Know to Start Doing Physics door Leonard Susskind2013
Weird Life: The Search for Life That Is Very, Very Different from Our Own door David Toomey2013
A Hole at the Bottom of the Sea: The Race to Kill the BP Oil Gusher door Joel Achenbach2012
Life's Ratchet: How Molecular Machines Extract Order from Chaos door Peter M. Hoffmann2012
Engineering Animals: How Life Works door Mark Denny2011
Quantum Man: Richard Feynman's Life in Science door Lawrence M. Krauss2011
Measure of the Earth: The Enlightenment Expedition That Reshaped Our World door Larrie D. Ferreiro2011
De verborgen realiteit parallelle universums en de diepe wetten van de kosmos door Brian Greene2011
Lab Coats in Hollywood: Science, Scientists, and Cinema door David A. Kirby2011
Rising Force: The Magic of Magnetic Levitation door James D. Livingston2011
Modernist Cuisine (six volume set) door Nathan Myhrvold2011
The 4 Percent Universe: Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and the Race to Discover the Rest of Reality door Richard Panek2011
Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie: A Tale of Love and Fallout door Lauren Redniss2011
Hindsight and Popular Astronomy door Alan B. Whiting2011
The Edge of Physics: A Journey to Earth's Extremes to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe door Anil Ananthaswamy2010
Het einde van jezelf, de mensheid, de wereld, de Melkweg, het universum en alles ertussenin door Chris Impey2010
Newton and the Counterfeiter: The Unknown Detective Career of the World's Greatest Scientist door Thomas Levenson2010
Hoe leer je natuurkunde aan je hond door Chad Orzel2010
Coming Climate Crisis? Consider the Past, Beware the Big Fix door Claire L. Parkinson2010
The Quants: How a New Breed of Math Whizzes Conquered Wall Street and Nearly Destroyed It door Scott Patterson2010
Ik ga naar Mars en neem mee ... de merkwaardige wetenschap van leven in de ruimte door Mary Roach2010
The Tunguska Mystery door Vladimir Rubtsov2010
Massive: The Missing Particle That Sparked the Greatest Hunt in Science door Ian Sample2010
Lake Views: This World and the Universe door Steven Weinberg2010
The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom door Graham Farmelo2009
The First War of Physics: The Secret History of the Atom Bomb, 1939-1949 door Jim Baggott2009
13 x onverklaarbaar de meest intrigerende wetenschappelijke raadsels van nu door Michael Brooks2009
First Principles: The Crazy Business of Doing Serious Science door Howard Burton2009
Perfect Rigor: A Genius and the Mathematical Breakthrough of the Century door Masha Gessen2009
Lives in Science: How Institutions Affect Academic Careers door Joseph C. Hermanowicz2009
The Physics of Rugby door Trevor Lipscombe2009
Oliver Heaviside: Maverick Mastermind of Electricity (History of Technology Series) door Basil Mahon2009
Deciphering the Cosmic Number: The Strange Friendship of Wolfgang Pauli and Carl Jung door Arthur I. Miller2009
Plastic Fantastic: How the Biggest Fraud in Physics Shook the Scientific World (Macmillan Science) door Eugenie Samuel Reich2009

Beschrijvingen

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, Door lid geschreven)
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, Door lid geschreven)

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