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The doors of Eden / by Tchaikovsky, Adrian,1972-author.;
"Four years ago, two girls went looking for monsters on Bodmin Moor. Only one came back ... Lee thought she'd lost Mal, but now she's miraculously returned. But what happened that day on the moors? And where has she been all this time? Mal's reappearance hasn't gone unnoticed by MI5 officers either, and Lee isn't the only one with questions. Julian Sabreur is investigating an attack on top physicist Kay Amal Khan. This leads Julian to clash with agents of an unknown power - and they may or may not be human. His only clue is grainy footage, showing a woman who supposedly died on Bodmin Moor. Dr Khan's research was theoretical; then she found cracks between our world and parallel Earths. Now these cracks are widening, revealing extraordinary creatures. And as the doors crash open, anything could come through."--
Subjects: Science fiction.; Missing persons; Women physicists; Extraterrestrial beings; Space and time; Human evolution; Monsters;
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American Prometheus : the triumph and tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer / by Bird, Kai,author.; Sherwin, Martin J.,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Biographies.; Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 1904-1967.; Atomic bomb; Physicists; Science;
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The stars turned inside out : a novel / by Jacobs, Nova,author.;
"The discovery of a suspicious death at a famous Swiss physics laboratory sparks a mystery that merges science, philosophy, and the high-stakes race to unlock the fundamental nature of our universe"--
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Novels.; European Organization for Nuclear Research; Large Hadron Collider (France and Switzerland); Murder; Physicists; Secrecy; Women private investigators;
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Shoot the moon : a novel / by Arsén, Isa,author.;
When physics graduate Annie Fisk, a NASA secretary during the Apollo 11 mission, identifies an engineer's miscalculations, she is propelled into a new position where she's torn between her ambitions, her heart and a mysterious discovery that upends everything she knows to be scientifically true.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Novels.; United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration; Apollo 11 (Spacecraft); Bisexual women; Physicists; Private secretaries; Women computer programmers;
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An affair of spies : a novel / by Balson, Ronald H.,author.;
"From the winner of the National Jewish Book Award-Ronald H. Balson's An Affair of Spies tells of a spy mission to rescue a defector from Germany and prevent the Nazis from creating an atomic bomb. Nathan Silverman grew up in Berlin in the 1920s, the son of a homemaker and a theoretical physicist. His idyllic childhood was soon marred by increasing levels of bigotry against his family and the rest of the Jewish community, and after his uncle is arrested on Kristallnacht, he leaves Germany for New York City with only his mother's wedding ring to sell for survival. While attending an evening course at Columbia in 1941, Nathan notices a recruitment poster on a university wall and decides to enlist in the military and help fight the Nazi regime. To his surprise, he is quickly selected for a special assignment; he is trained as a spy, and ordered to report to the Manhattan Project. There he learns that the Allies are racing to develop a nuclear weapon before the Nazis, and a German theoretical physicist is hoping to defect. The physicist was a friend of his father's, and Nathan's mission is to return to Berlin via France and smuggle him out of Europe. Nathan will be accompanied by Dr. Allison Fisher, a brilliant young scientist who can speak French; he travels to her lab at the University of Chicago for a crash course in nuclear physics, then they embark on their adventure. Nathan and Allison soon develop feelings for one another, but as their relationship deepens they move ever closer to their dangerous goal. Will they be able to escape Europe with the defector and start a new life together, or will they fail their mission and become two more casualties of war? An Affair of Spies is an action-packed tale of heroism and love in the face of unspeakable evil. Author Ronald H. Balson has applied his unmatched talent for evocative and painstakingly authentic storytelling to the high-stakes world of espionage and created his most thrilling novel yet"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Historical fiction.; Spy fiction.; Novels.; Manhattan Project (U.S.); Attempted defection; Physicists; Spies; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945;
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Stephen Hawking / by Sánchez Vegara, Ma Isabel(María Isabel); Hunt, Matt,1988-;
Includes bibliographical references."When Stephen Hawking was a little boy, he used to stare up at the stars and wonder about the universe. Although he was never top of the class, his curiosity took him to the best universities in England: Oxford and Cambridge. It also led him to make one of the biggest scientific discoveries of the 20th century: Hawking radiation. This moving book features stylish and quirky illustrations and extra facts at the back, including a biographical timeline with historical photos and a detailed profile of the brilliant physicist's life"--Amazon.com.LSC
Subjects: Hawking, Stephen, 1942-2018; Physicists; Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; People with disabilities;
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Atomic spy : the dark lives of Klaus Fuchs / by Greenspan, Nancy Thorndike,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."The gripping biography of a notorious Cold War villain--the German-born British scientist who handed the Soviets top-secret American plans for the plutonium bomb--showing a man torn between conventional loyalties and a sense of obligation to a greater good"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Fuchs, Klaus Emil Julius, 1911-1988.; Spies; Spies; Spies; Espionage, Soviet; Espionage, Soviet; Physicists; Nuclear weapons;
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Angels & demons / by Brown, Dan,1964-author.;
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Action and adventure fiction.; Catholic Church; Langdon, Robert (Fictitious character); Physicists; Religious educators; Popes; Signs and symbols; Secret societies; Anti-Catholicism; Illuminati; Papacy; Vendetta;
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Atomic love / by Fields, Jennie,author.;
"Chicago, 1950. Rosalind Porter has always defied expectations--in her work as a physicist on the Manhattan Project and in her passionate love affair with colleague Thomas Weaver. Five years after the end of both, her guilt over the bomb and her heartbreak over Weaver are intertwined. She desperately misses her work in the lab, yet has almost resigned herself to a more conventional life. Then Weaver gets back in touch--and so does the FBI. Special Agent Charlie Szydlo wants Roz to spy on Weaver, whom the FBI suspects of passing nuclear secrets to Russia. Roz helped to develop these secrets and knows better than anyone the devastating power such knowledge holds. But can she spy on a man she still loves, despite her better instincts? At the same time, something about Charlie draws her in. He's a former prisoner of war haunted by his past, just as her past haunts her. As Rosalind's feelings for each man deepen, so too does the danger she finds herself in. She will have to choose: the man who taught her how to love . . . or the man her love might save?"--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Spy fiction.; Manhattan Project (U.S.); Women physicists; Women spies; Man-woman relationships; Triangles (Interpersonal relations); Defense information, Classified; Intelligence officers; Subversive activities; Atomic bomb;
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Dark matter and the dinosaurs : the astounding interconnectedness of the universe / by Randall, Lisa,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.A renowned particle physicist draws on original research into dark matter to illuminate the surprising connections between deep space and life on Earth.
Subjects: Cosmology.; Dark matter (Astronomy);
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