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Nobel Laureates and Twentieth-Century Physics by Mauro Dardo

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The cover of Mauro Dardo’s Nobel Laureates and Twentieth-Century Physics (Cambridge, £24.99) says it all. Noble endeavours and Nobel prizes appear in this exploration of modern physics through the people who discovered it.

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