Frank Close

An illuminating history of the man and the science behind the Higgs boson, a piece of scientific history (Spectator). In the summer of 1964, a reclusive young professor at the University of Edinburgh wrote two scientific papers which have come to change our understanding of the most fundamental building blocks of matter and the nature of the universe. Peter Higgs...

The first full history for forty years of the development of nuclear power and the extraordinary minds behind it. Henry Becquerel's accidental discovery, in Paris in 1896, of a faint smudge on a photographic plate sparked a chain of discoveries which would unleash the atomic age. Destroyer of Worlds is the story of how the pursuit of this hidden source...

A thrilling history of the most damaging nuclear spy ever to undermine the West, by a leading scientific practitioner. Trinity was the codename for the test explosion of the atomic bomb in New Mexico on 16 July 1945. This exceptional book, Trinity, tells the story of the bomb's metaphorical father, Rudolf Peierls; his intellectual son, the atomic spy, Klaus Fuchs,...