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John Gribbin
John Gribbin (born 1946)

physicist, astrophysicist, astronomer, journalist

  • University of Sussex, University of Cambridge

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Richard Feynman
Fitzroy
He knew he was right
Origins
The Scientists
The scientists
The Fellowship
Annus mirabilis
FELLOWSHIP: THE STORY OF A REVOLUTION
Curie (1867-1934) in 90 minutes
The pocket Darwin
The fellowship
Richard Feynman
The Fellowship
The fellowship
Erwin Schrodinger and the Quantum Revolution
Darwin (1809-1882) in 90 minutes
Galileo (1564-1642) in 90 minutes
Mendel (1822-1884) in 90 minutes
Flower hunters
FitzRoy
Q is for quantum
The science of Philip Pullman's His dark materials
In search of SUSY
Companion to the cosmos
The Omega Point
Fire on Earth
Hyperspace
Hothouse earth
In the beginning
Alone in the universe
Stuff of the universe
Schrödinger's kittens and the search for reality
The little book of science
Unveiling the edge of time
In Search of Schrödinger's Cat
Timewarps
In search of the big bang
Time & space
In search of the double helix
ANALOG ANNUAL
Almost everyone's guide to science
The birth of time
Galaxies
The Origins of the Future
Blinded by the light
Future Worlds
Schrodinger's Kittens and the Search for Reality: Solving the Quantum Mysteries Tag
In search of the edge of time
Science
Weather
The origins of the future
The case of the missing neutrinos
The human genome
The death of the Sun
Our changing universe
Spacewarps
The reason why
Ragnarok
Deep Simplicity
Time and Space
The Birth of Time
Space
Hothouse earth
Astronomy for the amateur
The monkey puzzle
The monkey puzzle
The strangest star
The Jupiter effect
On physics
Children of the ice
Quantum Physics
Ben Bova Presents Father to the Man
Companion to the Cosmos
Forecasts, famines and freezes
Inventing the Future
El Pequeño Libro De La Ciencia (Paidos Asterisco)
Weather force
Hothouse Earth
Future weather and the greenhouse effect
Timewarps
The universe
Stardust
Future weather
XTL
Birth of Time, The
Spacewarps
Deep simplicity
Father to the Man
In Search of Schrödinger's Cat
The Hole In The Sky
Watching the weather
Eyewitness Science
Empire of the sun
The Future of Cosmology
The hole in the sky
Stardust
Our changing planet
The fellowship Gilbert, Bacon, Harvey, Wren, Newton, and the story of a scientific revolution
Watching the Universe
Get a Grip on Physics
Science
The digital revolution
Halley (1656-1742) in 90 minutes
Double planet
In search of the double helix
Winds of change
In Search of the Big Bang
In search of Schrödinger's cat
Op Zoek naar Schrödingers Kat
Schrödinger's kittens and the search for reality
HOW FAR IS UP?: MEASURING THE SIZE OF THE UNIVERSE
Deep simplicity
Double Planet
The omega point
Der Weltraum. Von Urknall, Schwarzen Löchern und fremden Welten. Bildband aus der BBC Edition
This shaking earth
Galaxy formation
Asi de Simple
Earthquakes and Volcanoes
Genesis
Darwin
Space
Weather force
Ice Age
Future worlds
Quantum Physics: A Beginner's Guide to the Subatomic World
The hole in the sky
Time and space
Climatic threat
OUR CHANGING PLANET
Future weather and the greenhouse effect
Time Travel
Diccionario del Cosmos
The Britannica Guide to the 100 Most Influential Scientists
Get a Grip on New Physics
The Redundant Male
Our Changing Universe
Blinded by the Light
Climate and mankind
Get a grip on physics
Just look at... weather
Schrödingers Kätzchen und die Suche nach der Wirklichkeit
Historia de La Ciencia 1543-2001
La terre-serre
Carbon Dioxide, Climate and Man
Deep Simplicity
In Search of the Edge of Time
In Search of Superstrings
The Hole In The Sky; Man's Threat to the Ozone Layer (New Sciences)
Father to the man
In search of the big bang
Empire of the Sun
You Are Made of Stardust
White holes
Cosmos An Illustrated Guide to Our Solar System and the Universe
The Jupiter effect
Nuestro Universo
Science
Wissenschaft für die Westentasche
The first chimpanzee
The Jupiter effect reconsidered
The one per cent advantage
Quantum Physics
Innervisions
Le Chat de Schrödinger
Ice age
The Omega Point
Jupiter Effect
Stardust
Weather force
Richard Feynman
Schrödinger's kittens
Our changing climate
FITZROY: THE REMARKABLE STORY OF DARWIN'S CAPTAIN AND THE INVENTION OF THE WEATHER FORECAST
El Nacimiento Del Tiempo
Reunion
In search of the multiverse
Spacewarps
Being human
Fisica Cuantica
Forcast Famine Frz
In the Beginning
Big numbers
In the beginning
DEEP SIMPLICITY: CHAOS, COMPLEXITY AND THE EMERGENCE OF LIFE
Genesis
Time and the Universe
Beyond the Jupiter effect
The strangest star
A Brief History of Science
Our changing planet
The Jupiter effect
Dazzling discoveries
Genesis
Father to the Man Uk
IN SEARCH OF SUPERSTRINGS: SYMMETRY, MEMBRANES AND THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING
Faraday (1791-1867) in 90 minutes
Newton (1642-1727) in 90 minutes
In search of the multiverse
Evolution
Em Busca de Susy
Big Numbers
The strangest star
Time Warps
Innervisions (Roc)
Science for Everyone
En Busca de Susy
Big Bang
The matter myth
The expanding universe
The stuff of the universe
Watching the Weather
In search of Schro dinger's cat
Almost Everyone's Guide to Science
XTL
Unveiling the edge of time
Too Hot to Handle?
Fire on Earth
Ben Bova presents
Ragnarok
Men Who Measured the Universe
Stardust
Planeta duplo
Being Human
Auf dem Weg zur Weltformel.
Ice Age
En busca de la frontera del tiempo
Cosmology
Reunion
Weather j Gribbin/m Kelly
Double Planet
Children's History of Science
Being Human
Fire on Earth
Newton (1642-1727) in 90 minutes
Auf der Suche nach Schrödingers Katze
Fire on earth
How the brain works
Leonard Mlodinow
Leonard Mlodinow (born 1954)

physicist, mathematician

  • University of California, Berkeley

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Feynman's Rainbow
A Briefer History of Time
The Drunkard's Walk
The Grand Design
The last dinosaur
Stephen Hawking
Euclid's Window
Elastic
The Upright Thinkers
Subliminal
War of the Worldviews
Emotional
Stephen Hawking
Titanic Cat
O andar do bêbado
Freeman Dyson
Freeman Dyson (1923-2020)

mathematician, theoretical physicist, nuclear physicist, professor, statistician, physicist

  • University of Cambridge, Winchester College

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Disturbing the universe
The Scientist as Rebel
Maker of patterns
Yu zhou po lan =
What Are You Optimistic About?
Weapons and hope
From Eros to Gaia
Imagined worlds
The sun, the genome & the Internet
Infinite in all directions
A Many-Colored Glass
Origins of Life (CANTO)
The Best American Science And Nature Writing 2010
The Best Writing on Mathematics 2011
Values at war
Origins of life
The Best Writing on Mathematics 2011
Disturbing the Universe
Advanced Quantum Mechanics
Imagined Worlds (The Jerusalem-Harvard Lectures)
Heretical thoughts about science and society
From Eros to Gaia
Dear Professor Dyson
Dreams of earth and sky
Imagined worlds
Los origenes de la vida
Birds and Frogs; selected papers, 1990-2014
Die Sonne, das Genom und das Internet. Wissenschaftliche Innovation und die Technologien der Zukunft
Advanced quantum mechanics
Symmetry groups in nuclear and particle physics
Imagined Worlds
Le soleil, le génome et Internet
Field theory
Die Sonne, das Genom und das Internet
Selected papers of Freeman Dyson with commentary
Disturbing the Universe
Les dérangeurs de l'univers
Dyson Quantenfeldtheorie
El Infinito En Todas Direcciones
Technology and social justice (Louis Nizer lecture on public policy)
De Eros A Gaia
Neutron stars and pulsars
The world, the flesh and the devil..
Zeit ohne Ende: Physik und Biologie eines offenen Universums
Daison hakushi no taiyō genomu intānetto
SOL, (0) O GENOMA E A INTERNET - Ferramentas de Revoluções Científicas -(EURO 9.73)
Advanced quantum mechanics
Stephen Wolfram
Stephen Wolfram (born 1959)

mathematician, physicist, computer scientist, patent inventor, businessperson, artificial intelligence researcher, opinion journalist, merchant, podcaster

  • California Institute of Technology, Eton College

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Idea Makers
Mathematica
The mathematica book
The MATHEMATICA ® Book, Version 3
Mathematica 3.0 standard add-on packages
An Elementary Introduction to the Wolfram Language
Mathematica
A new kind of science
Cellular automata and complexity
Mathematica reference guide
Cellular automata and complexity
Cellular automata
Mathematica : a system for doing mathematics by computer
Cellular automata
Marcello Cini
Marcello Cini (1923-2012)

physicist, environmentalist

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Dialoghi Di Un Cattivo Maestro
Un paradiso perduto
Introduction à la mécanique des particules
Dalla biologia all'etica e viceversa
C. P. Snow
C. P. Snow (1905-1980)

physicist, politician, literary critic

  • University of Cambridge, University of Leicester

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Variety of men
Trollope, his life and art
The physicists
Trollope
Trollope
Trollope an Illustrated Biography
Variety of men
The two cultures
The sleep of reason
Death under Sail
In their wisdom
The search
The conscience of the rich
Time of hope
Strangers and brothers
Corridors of power
Last things
The light and the dark
The malcontents
The new men
The masters
Science and government
A coat of varnish
The state of siege
The realists
Stories from modern Russia
Public affairs
The Two Cultures
C. P. Snow, a spectrum
C.P. Snow: Strangers and Brothers
Strangers and Brothers
Last Things (Strangers and Brothers)
The Masters (Strangers and Brothers)
5 coat of varnish
The New Men (Strangers and Brothers)
Corridors of Power (Strangers and Brothers)
George Passant (Strangers and Brothers)
C.P. Snow
Science and Government
Homecomings (Strangers and Brothers)
The Light and the Dark (Strangers and Brothers)
The Two Cultures
Time of Hope (Strangers and Brothers)
The two cultures and the scientific revolution
Affair (Affair Hre)
The Sleep of Reason (Strangers and Brothers)
Reader's Digest Family Treasury of Great Biographies. Volume II
The Realists: Eight Portraits
Winter's tales
Stories from Modern Russia
Variety of men
Strangers and Brothers, Volume 2 (The Masters, The New Men, Homecoming, and The Affair)
Dve kul'tury
The masters
Appendix to Science and Government
Recent thoughts on the two cultures
Homecomings
Magnanimity
The Masters
The Conscience of the Rich
Time of Hope
The Conscience of the Rich (Strangers and Brothers)
Coat of Varnish (Coat of Varnish SL Ppr)
Die zwei Kulturen
ROBESPIERRE. A STUDY. WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION.
Richard Aldington
LIGHT AND THE DARK (Light & Dark Hre)
THE NEW MEN
George Passant
George Passant
The Masters
The Masters
The Conscience of the Rich
Strangers and Brothers Vol.3
The search. --
Last things
The Two Cultures and a Second Look, an Expanded Version of the Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution
The search. --
The affair
The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution
Search
The new men
The Masters
Strangers and brothers
The Conscience Of The Rich.
IN THEIR WISDOM
New Men
The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution
The masters; a novel
Variety of Men
Videnskab og stat
Va y Viene - Cuantos Hay..
Homecomings
The light and the dark
Selections from C. P. Snow
The light and the dark
Homecomings
The Masters. Penguin Fiction No. 1089
STRANGERS AND BROTHERS (Strangers & Brothers Hre)
Kinds of excellence
Zeit der Hoffnung
As dúas culturas
New lives for old
Las DOS Culturas
Homecoming
The Conscence of the Rich
Time of Hope, 1st, First Edition
The search
Search
The Affair (Strangers and Brothers) by C.P. Snow (2000-12-08)
Corridors of Power
Corridors of power
Strangers and brothers
C.P. Snow
Strangers and Brothers.
The Light and The Dark
Writers and readers of the Soviet Union
A coat of varnish
Conscience of the Rich by C. P. Snow (1958-06-06)
Les dues cultures
Les dues cultures
Strangers and brothers
The Masters
The Conscience of the Rich
Corridors of Power
Realists
The Search by C. P. Snow (1958-12-05)
Variety of Men [By] C. P. Snow
Science And Government - The Godkin Lectures at Harvard University 1960
Les Deux cultures
TIME OF HOPE (Time of Hope Hre)
The New Men
Strangers and Brothers, Volume 3 (Corridors of Power, The Sleep of Reason, Last Things)
Science and Government
The Masters (Masters Hre)
Va y Viene - Lo Contrario de..
Variety of men
The Masters (Penguin)
Les dues cultures
De to kulturer
Mi Gran Libro de Los Colores - Formas-Numero
Variety of men
The Search
The Conscience of the Rich
Masters Snow CP
The Sleep of Reason
Time of Hope. Book on Tape Collector's Edition
The search / by C.P. Snow
Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution
The Search
The conscience of the rich
Homecomings
Last Things by C.P. Snow
A postscript to science and government
Death Under Sail
Iki Kültür
Strangers and Brothers 3 Volume Set
Strangers and Brothers
Science and Government
Time of Hope
The new men
The two cultures and the scientific revolution (The Rede lecture, 1959) (The Rede lecture, 1959)
The Sleep of Reason by C. P. Snow (1968-10-06)
Strangers and Brothers
The Affair
Les dues cultures
Last Things by C. P. Snow (1970-10-22)
Science and government
The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution (#4951)
The light and the dark
Last Things [By] C. P. Snow
The affair / by C.P. Snow
The stage of siege
Va y Viene - Quien Vive Aqui ?
Two Cultures
The Masters
The two cultures; and, A second look
Va y Viene - Colores y Formas
Death under Sail
The sleep of reason (His Strangers and brothers, 10)
Variety of Man
Two Cultures
A postcript to Science and government
The new man
C.P. Snow
Time of hope
The conscience of the rich
The two cultures and the scientific revolution
Richard Aldington
Time of hope
The two cultures: and a second look
The masters
The two cultures
Appendix to Science and government
The light and the dark
The conscience of the rich
Müneccimbaşı Ahmed Dede
Müneccimbaşı Ahmed Dede (1631-1702)

astronomer, astrologer, historian

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Kitāb Jāmiʻ al-duwal
Camiü'd-düvel
Ṣaḥā'if ül-ahbār
Anadolu Selçukîleri
Sahaif-ül-ahbar fî vekayi-u̇l-as̓âr
Tārīkh-i Munajjim Bāshī yā Ṣaḥāyif al-akhbār fī vaqāyiʻ al-ās̲ār
Tārīkh jāmi' al-duwal
Tārīkh-i jāmi' al-duwal
Sultan Mehmet Han-i Salis zaman saadetinde reʼisulmüneccim olan fazıl-i muhakkık Derviş Ahmet Efendi'nin ((tertib etidiği Sahaif ül-ahbar))-i nām-i Arabi tarihinin Sultan Ahmet Han-i Salis asırî üdeba ve urefasından şair-i meṣhur Nedim Efendi'nin eser-i himmeti olan tercümesinde ...
Kânûnî Sultan Süleyman Sonrası Osmanlı devleti
Câmiu'd-düvel
Konstantin Tsiolkovskii
Konstantin Tsiolkovskii (1857-1935)

flight engineer, mathematician, inventor, physicist, philosopher, astronomer, scientist, cosmologist, teacher

  • Vyatka men's gymnasium

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Cherty iz moeĭ zhizni
Geniĭ sredi li͡udeĭ
Beyond the planet earth
The will of the universe ; Intellect unknown ; Mind and passions
Reaktivnye letatelʹnye apparaty
Putʹ k zvezdam
Ocherki o vselennoĭ
Selected works
Izbrannye trudy
Selected works
Sobranie sochineniĭ
Na lune
The call of the cosmos
Issledovanie mirovykh prostranstv reaktivnymi priborami
Grezy o zemle i nebe
Raketa v kosmicheskoe prostranstvo
Vne Zemli
Selected works
Trudy dvenadt︠s︡atykh Chteniĭ, posvi︠a︡shchennykh razrabotke nauchnogo nasledii︠a︡ i razvitii︠u︡ ideĭ K.Ė. T︠S︡iolkovskogo, Kaluga, 14-16 sent. 1977 g.
The science fiction of Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
Promyshlennoe osvoenie kosmosa
Trudy shestykh i sedʹmykh chteniĭ, posvi͡ashchennykh razrabotke nauchnogo nasledii͡a i razvitii͡a ideĭ K.Ė. T͡Siolkovskogo