BARNETT, LINCOLN. "J. Robert Oppenheimer. No. 1 Thinker on Atomic Energy." IN: Life, Vol. 27, No. 15, pp. (120)-138. 148 pages. Illustrated. Folio, pictorial wrappers with fine portrait of Oppenheimer on front cover. Chicago: Time, Inc. October 10, 1949.
Extensive biographical profile of Oppenheimer. This issue also includes the Editorial "Atomic Control. It is More Necessary and Seemingly Less Attainable than Ever."

BERNSTEIN, JEREMY. Hans Bethe, Prophet of Energy. 212 pages. 8vo, cloth, dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. New York: Basic Books. 1980. QC16.B46 B47
First serialized in The New Yorker.

BLUMBERG, STANLEY A. & GWINN OWENS. Energy and Conflict. The Life and Times of Edward Teller. 492 pages. Illustrated. 8vo, cloth. FIRST EDITION. New York: Putnam's. 1976. QC16.T37 B58 1976

BOHR, NIELS. Niels Bohr; his life and work as seen by his friends and colleagues. 1st English edition. 355 pages. Amsterdam: North-Holland Pub. Co.; New York: Wiley. 1967.
Include the following contributors: Childhood and youth. The decisive years, 1911-1918, by L. Rosenfeld and E. Rudinger.- Glimpses of Niels Bohr as scientist and thinker, by O. Klein.- Quantum theory and its interpretation, by W. Heisenberg.- Recollections from the years 1929-1931, by H. B. G. Casimir. - Niels Bohr in the thirties, by L. Rosenfeld. - The interest is focusing on the atomic nucleus, by O. R. Frisch. - The forties and the fifties, by S. Rozental. - The war years and the prospects raised by the atomic weapons, by A. Bohr. - Reminiscenses from the post-war years, by A. Pais. - Niels Bohr and his youngest disciples, by J. Kalckar. - Review of International scientific collaboration, by V. F. Weisskopf. - Niels Bohr and the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, by J. Pedersen. - Niels Bohr and the Danish Atomic Energy Research Establishment, by V. Kampmann. - Niels Bohr and the Danish community, by M. Pihl. - Fifty years of friendship, by R. Courant. - The versatility of Niels Bohr, by P. A. M. Dirac.

BOORSE, HENRY A. (HENRY ABRAHAM), LLOYD MOTZ, AND JEFFERSON HANE WEAVER. The atomic scientists: a biographical history. 472 pages. New York: Wiley. (Wiley science editions). 1989.

BORN, MAX. My Life & My Views. Introduction by I. Bernard Cohen. 216 pages. 8vo, cloth, dust jacket. FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. New York: Scribner's. 1968. Q125 .B63

CHEVALIER, HAAKON. Oppenheimer. The Story of a Friendship. 219 pages. 8vo, cloth, dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. New York: Braziller. 1965. QC16.O62 C5

CHEVALIER, HAAKON. Oppenheimer. The Story of a Friendship. 204 pages. 8vo, pictorial wrappers. FIRST POCKET BOOK EDITION. New York: Pocket Books. 1966. QC16.O62 C5 1966

CHILDS, HERBERT. An American Genius: The Life of Ernest Orlando Lawrence. 576 pages. Illustrated. 8vo, cloth, dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. New York: Dutton. 1968. QC16.L36 C5

COMPTON, ARTHUR HOLLY. Atomic Quest. A Personal Narrative. 370 pages. Illustrated. 8vo, cloth, dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. New York: Oxford University Press. 1956. TK9153 .C6

CRAWFORD, DEBORAH. Lise Meitner, Atomic Pioneer. 192 pages. 8vo, cloth, dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. New York: Crown. 1969. QC774.M4 C7 1969

CURIE, EVE. Madame Curie. A Biography. Translated by Vincent Sheean. 393 pages. Illustrated. 8vo, cloth. FIRST EDITION. Garden City: Doubleday. 1937. QD22.C8 C85 1937
Signed by the Author.

CURIE, EVE. Madame Curie. A Biography. Translated by Vincent Sheean. 450 pages. 8vo, pictorial wrappers. FIRST PAPERBACK EDITION. New York: Pocket Books. June 1946. QD22.C8 C85 1946b

CURIE, MARIE. Pierre Curie. Translated by Charlotte and Vernon Kellogg. 242 pages. Illustrated. 8vo, cloth. FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. New York: Macmillan. 1923. QD22.C82 C8

DAVIS, NUEL PHARR. Lawrence and Oppenheimer. 384 pages. 8vo, cloth, dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. New York: Simon and Schuster. 1968. QC16.L36 D3

EVE, A.S. Rutherford. Being the Life and Letters of the Rt Hon. Lord Rutherford, O.M. Foreword by Earl Baldwin of Bewdley. 451 pages. Illustrated. 8vo, cloth. FIRST EDITION. New York: Macmillan. 1939. QC16.R8 E9
The definitive biography.

FERMI, LAURA. Illustrious Immigrants. The Intellectual Migration from Europe 1930-1941. 440 pages. 8vo, cloth. FIRST EDITION. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 1968. E184.A1 F47

GOLDSMITH, MAURICE. Frederic Joliot-Curie. A Biography. 260 pages. Illustrated. 8vo, cloth, dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. London: Lawrence and Wishart. 1976. QC16.J65 G64

GOODCHILD, PETER. J. Robert Oppenheimer. Shatterer of Worlds. 301 pages. Illustrated. 8vo, cloth, dust jacket. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. 1981. QC16.O62 G66 1981
Produced in conjunction with the BBC/WGBH television series "Oppenheimer."

HAHN, OTTO. A Scientific Autobiography. Translated by Willy Ley. Introduction by Glenn T. Seaborg. 296 pages. 8vo, cloth, dust jacket. FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. New York: Scribner's. 1966.

HAHN, OTTO. My Life. The Autobiography of a Scientist. Translated by Ernst Kaiser and Eithne Wilkins. 240 pages. 8vo, cloth, dust jacket. FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. New York: Herder and Herder. 1970. QD22.H2 A2813 1970
Translation of Mein Leben, 1968.

HAHN, OTTO. Vom Radiothor zur Uranspaltung. Eine wissenschaftliche Selbstbiographie. 156; 47 pages. Illustrated. 8vo, cloth. FIRST EDITION. Braunschweig: Vieweg. 1962. QD22.H2 A3 1962
Includes complete facsimiles of the 3 seminal Hahn-Strassmann papers.

HIEBERT, RAY & ROSELYN HIEBERT. Atomic Pioneers. Books 1-3. 3 volumes. Illustrated. 8vo, pictorial wrappers. Oak Ridge: U.S.A.E.C. 1974. QC15 .H53

HOWORTH, MURIEL. Pioneer Research on the Atom. The Life Story of Frederick Soddy. 352 pages. Illustrated. 8vo, cloth. FIRST EDITION. London: New World Publications. 1958. QC16.S75 H6

JAFFE, BERNARD. Moseley and the Numbering of the Elements. 178 pages. Illustrated. 8vo, cloth, dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. Garden City: Doubleday. 1971. QC16.M68 J3

KISTIAKOWSKY, GEORGE B. A Scientist at the White House. The Private Diary of President Eisenhower's Special Assistant for Science and Technology. Introduction by Charles S. Maier. 448 pages. 8vo, cloth, dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. Cambridge: Harvard U. Press. 1976. Q127.U6 K53

LAWREN, WILLIAM. The General and the Bomb. A Biography of General Leslie R. Groves, Director of the Manhattan Project. 324 pages. 8vo, cloth, dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. New York: Dodd, Mead. 1988. UG128.G76 L39 1988

LEVI, HILDE. George de Hevesy. Life and Work. A Biography. 147 pages. 8vo, cloth, dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. Bristol and Boston: Adam Hilger. 1985. QD22.H45 L48 1985

LILIENTHAL, DAVID E. This I Do Believe. 208 pages. 8vo, cloth, dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. New York: Harper. 1949. E748.L7 A3
PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by Lilienthal to J. Willard Roosevelt.

MCPHEE, JOHN. The Curve of Binding Energy. A Journey into the Awesome and Alarming World of Theodore B. Taylor. 232 pages. 8vo, cloth, dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. New York: Farrar, Strauss. 1974. UF767 .M215 1974
Outstanding biography of the man who miniaturized the atomic bomb.

MEITNER, LISE. "Max Planck." IN: Kosmos, Band 25, pp. (1)-3. 176 pages. Illustrated. 8vo, cloth-backed boards. Stockholm: P.A. Norstedt & Soener. 1947.
Meitner's obituary of Max Planck.

MEYENN, KARL VON, KLAUS STOLZENBURG & ROMAN U. SEXL, Editors. Niels Bohr 1885-1962. Der Kopenhagener Geist in der Physik. 409 pages. Illustrated. 8vo, cloth, dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. Braunschweig/Wiesbaden. 1985. QC16.B63 N57 1985

MICHELMORE, PETER. The Swift Years. The Robert Oppenheimer Story. 273 pages. Illustrated. 8vo, cloth, dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. New York: Dodd, Mead. 1969. QC16.O62 M5

MOORE, RUTH. Niels Bohr: The Man, His Science, & the World They Changed. Illustrated, including drawings by Sue Richert Allen. 436 pages. 8vo, cloth, dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. New York: Knopf. 1966. QC16.B63 M6

MOSS, NORMAN, Klaus Fuchs. The Man Who Stole the Atom Bomb. 216 pages. Illustrated. 8vo, cloth, dust jacket. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. New York: St. Martin's Press. 1987. UB271.R92 F836 1987

OLIPHANT, MARK. Rutherford. Recollections of the Cambridge Days. 158 pages. Illustrated. 8vo, cloth, dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. Amsterdam: Elsevier. 1972. QC16.R8 O54
Foreword by Sir James Chadwick. The Author was a student and co-worker of Rutherford.

OPPENHEIMER. By I.I. Rabi, Robert Serber, Victor F. Weisskopf, Abraham Pais & Glen T. Seaborg. 90 pages. Illustrated. 8vo, cloth, dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. New York: Scribner's. 1969. QC16.O62 O6

OPPENHEIMER, J. ROBERT. Science and the Common Understanding. 121 pages. 8vo, cloth, dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. New York: Simon and Schuster. 1954. Q171 .O6

OPPENHEIMER, J. ROBERT. The Open Mind. 146 pages. 8vo, cloth, dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. New York: Simon and Schuster. 1955. QC780 .O6

OPPENHEIMER, ROBERT: Letters and Recollections. Edited by Alice Kimball Smith & Charles Weiner. 376 pages. Illustrated. 8vo, cloth, dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. Cambridge: Harvard. 1980.

PAIS, ABRAHAM. Niels Bohr's times: in physics, philosophy, and polity Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press. 1991.

PHILLIPS, JOHN ARISTOTLE & DAVID MICHAELIS. Mushroom. The Story of the A-Bomb Kid. 287 pages. 8vo, cloth, dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. New York: Morrow. 1978. QC774.P44 A33
True story of the Princeton undergraduate who designed a workable atomic bomb using unclassified documents.

PHILLIPS, JOHN ARISTOTLE & DAVID MICHAELIS. Mushroom: The Story of the A-Bomb Kid. 265 pages. 8vo, decorative wrappers. FIRST PAPERBACK EDITION. New York: Pocket Books. 1979. QC774.P44 A33 1979

POLMAR, NORMAN & THOMAS B. ALLEN. Rickover. Controversy and Genius. A Biography. 744 pages. Illustrated. 8vo, cloth, dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. New York: Simon and Schuster. 1982. V63.R54 P64

RABI, I.I. My Life and Times as a Physicist. Foreword by Joseph B. Platt. 55 pages. 8vo, cloth, dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. Claremont, California: Claremont College. 1960. Q127.U6 R2
Text of two lectures at Claremont. SIGNED BY RABI.

RIEDMAN, SARAH R. Men and Women Behind the Atom. 228 pages. Illustrated. 8vo, cloth, dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. London and New York: Abelard-Schuman. 1958. QC15 .R5 1958

RIGDEN, JOHN S. Rabi: Scientist and Citizen. 302 pages. 8vo, cloth, dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. New York: Basic Books. 1987. QC16.R2 R54 1987
The first full biography of Rabi.

ROUZE, MICHEL. Robert Oppenheimer. The Man and His Theories. Translated by Patrick Evans. 192 pages. Illustrated. 8vo, cloth, dust jacket. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. New York: Paul S. Eriksson. 1965. QC16.O62 R6 1962

ROYAL, DENISE. The Story of J. Robert Oppenheimer. 196 pages. Illustrated. 8vo, cloth, dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. New York: St. Martin's Press. 1969. QC16.O62 R62 1969

SEGRE, EMILIO. Enrico Fermi. Physicist. 276 pages. Illustrated. 8vo, cloth, dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. Chicago: U. of Chicago Press. 1970. QC774.F4 S4
The definitive biography, by one of Fermi's colleagues in the Manhattan Project.

TELLER, EDWARD. The Reluctant Revolutionary. 71 pages. 8vo, cloth, dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. Columbia: U. of Missouri Press. 1964. Q147 .T4
The Paul Anthony Brick Lectures Third Series.

THOMSON, GEORGE. J.J. Thomson and the Cavendish Laboratory in his Day. 186 pages. Illustrated. 8vo, cloth, dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. Garden City: Doubleday. 1965. QC515.T53 T4 1965

TRUMAN, HARRY S. Mr. Citizen. 315 pages. Illustrated. 8vo, cloth, glassine wrappers, slipcase. New York: Bernard Geis. 1960. E814 .A33 1960
ONE OF 1000 NUMBERED COPIES, SIGNED BY TRUMAN. Includes Truman's reflections on the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

TRUMAN, HARRY S. Public Papers of; April 12, 1945 to January 20, 1953. 8 volumes. Large 8vo, cloth. Washington, D.C.: USGPO. 1961-1966. J82 .D7

WILLIAMS, ROBERT CHADWELL. Klaus Fuchs, Atom Spy. 267 pages. 8vo, cloth, dust jacket. New York: Cambridge: Harvard. 1987. UB271.R9 F838 1987

YORK, HERBERT. The Advisors. Oppenheimer, Teller, and the Superbomb. 175 pages. 8vo, cloth, dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. San Francisco: Freeman. 1976. UG1282.A8 Y67