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Author
Publisher
Soft Skull Press
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
The three dead geniuses who invented the atomic bomb- Robert Oppenheimer, Leo Szilard, and Enrico Fermi-mysteriously appear in Sante Fe, New Mexico, in 2003, nearly sixty years after they watched history's first mushroom cloud rise over the New Mexico desert. One by one, they are discovered by a shy librarian, who takes them in and devotes herself to them.
Faced with the evidence of their nuclear legacy, the scientists embark on a global disarmament...
Author
Publisher
Turner Publishing Company
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Crime. Vengeance. Love. Physics. The infamous Deadbomb Bingo Ray is a high level fixer in the City of Brotherly Love. He's the man you call when you've crossed the line into hopeless and there's no way back to anywhere. Three years have passed since Ray burned a hedge fund manager on behalf of a pool of retirees, and now the money man is back for revenge. While Ray unravels the plot and orchestrates some payback of his own, he unwittingly steps into...
Author
Series
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Retired physicist Gloria Lamerino and her fiance, homicide detective Matt Gennaro, are pulled into another mystery when the groom at a friend's wedding disappears along with some top-secret research on nitrogen.
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
When their autistic son Michael--a genius descended from Albert Einstein--is abducted by a cult bent on the destruction of the world, science historian David Swift and quantum physicist Monique Reynolds must stop the cult members from recreating the Big Bang and destroying mankind.
Author
Series
Publisher
W. Morrow
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Former physics professor Gloria Lamerino investigates the murder of a physics lab janitor at a university in Massachusetts. The janitor apparently discovered a plot by scientists to hide the environmental hazards of a new lithium battery. By the author of The Hydrogen Murder.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
German physicist Paul Haber fled to America to work on the atomic bomb and avenge the loss of his family to the Nazis, but when he learns that his family is alive in Nazi hands, he must spy on his new homeland to protect them.
55) Heroes proved
Author
Series
Publisher
Threshold Editions
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
In the year 2032, America is supposedly safe from terror, Iranian nuclear weaponry is no longer a threat, and the United Nations' treaties and technologies are keeping the peace. Then a suicide bomber targets Houston, Texas and a famous physicist is kidnapped. The ensuing search by a decorated U.S. Marine war hero and veteran of special ops, not only places the physicist's family in grave danger, but exposes an even more ominous threat to the country,...
59) COSM
Author
Publisher
Avon Eos
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
An accidental explosion in a laboratory creates a wormhole, a space-time tunnel, which black physicist Alicia Butterworth uses to visit another universe. Time is so fast in this other world, Alicia can observe cosmic evolution as it happens. By the author of Sailing Bright Eternity.
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1991.
Language
English
Description
Alexander Simon, a New York City physicist on the threshold at age thirty of momentous achievements, is a man who can explain the most complex hows and whys of science and of life, but when it comes to the actual process of living, he falters.
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