Life on the Edge shorlisted for Physics World’s list of the year’s best physics books!
Posted 11th December 2015
The full list is:
Life on the Edge: the Coming of Age of Quantum Biology by Jim Al-Khalili and Johnjoe McFadden
Physics on Your Feet: Ninety Minutes of Shame but a PhD for the Rest of Your Life by Dmitry Budker and Alexander Sushkov
Half-Life: the Divided Life of Bruno Pontecorvo, Physicist or Spy by Frank Close
Trespassing on Einstein’s Lawn: a Father, a Daughter, the Meaning of Nothing and the Beginning of Everything by Amanda Gefter
Beyond: Our Future in Space by Chris Impey
The Water Book: the Extraordinary Story of Our Most Ordinary Substance by Alok Jha
Monsters: the Hindenburg Disaster and the Birth of Pathological Technology by Ed Regis
Tunnel Visions: the Rise and Fall of the Superconducting Super Collider by Michael Riordan, Lillian Hoddeson, Adrienne Kolb
The Copernicus Complex: the Quest for our Cosmic (In)Significance by Caleb Scharf
Atoms Under the Floorboards: the Surprising Science Hidden in Your Home by Chris Woodford
The winner will be announced on Tuesday, 15 December. The initial announcement will be made a podcast on physicsworld.com, and it will then appear later in a news story on the same site.
fingers’s crossed!