John Ziman

In the LRB Archive:

• Diary · 18 May 1989

• What shall we look into now? · 21 May 1987

  • The Advancement of Science and its Burdens by Gerald Holton

• Fear and Loathing in Los Alamos · 4 September 1986

  • Bird of Passage: Recollections of a Physicist by Rudolf Peierls
  • A Life in Science by Nevill Mott
  • Stallion Gate by Martin Cruz Smith
  • Day of the Bomb: Hiroshima 1945 by Dan Kurzman
  • Assessing the Nuclear Age edited by Len Ackland and Steven McGuire

• A Billion Years a Week · 19 September 1985

  • Turing’s Man: Western Culture in the Computer Age by David Bolter and A.J. Ayer

• Seductive Intentions · 2 August 1984

  • A Science Policy for Britain by Tam Dalyell

• What exactly did he discover? · 3 May 1984

  • ‘Subtle is the Lord’: The Science and Life of Albert Einstein by Abraham Pais
  • The Cosmic Code: Quantum Physics as the Language of Nature by Heinz Pagels
  • Philosophy and the New Physics by Jonathan Powers
  • Albert Einstein: The Centennial Symposium in Jerusalem edited by Gerald Holton and Yehuda Elkana

• Separation · 4 August 1983

  • Refusenik by Mark Ya. Azbel

• Carnivals of Progress · 17 February 1983

  • Sir William Rowan Hamilton by Thomas Hankins
  • Gentlemen of Science: Early Years of the British Association for the Advancement of Science by Jack Morrell and Arnold Thackray
  • The Parliament of Science: The British Association for the Advancement of Science 1831-1981 edited by Roy MacLeod and Peter Collins

• Irreversibility · 18 March 1982

  • From Being to Becoming by Ilya Prigogine

• Breeding too fast · 4 February 1982

  • The Nuclear Barons by Peter Pringle and James Spigelman

• Science Policy and Science Publishing · 18 June 1981

  • Scientists in Whitehall by Philip Gummett
  • Development of Science Publishing in Europe edited by A.J. Meadows

• Landau and his School · 18 December 1980

  • Landau: A Great Physicist and Teacher by Anna Livanova, translated by J.B. Sykes

• John Ziman on the true enchantment of physics · 22 May 1980

  • The Dancing Wu Li Masters by Gary Zukav

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