Books

Books

 

YearAuthor(s)TitleReference
1956M.E. NahmiasLe neutrino – Mise au point de l’état actuel du problèmeCNRS
1958J.S. AllenThe neutrinoPrinceton University Press - Review by A.H. Snell, Physics Today 11, 11, 36 (1958)
1962E. Segrè, ed.The collected papers of Enrico FermiUniversity of Chicago Press
1969Isaac AsimovThe neutrino, ghost particle of the atomAvon Books - French translation “Une particule fantôme, le neutrino”, Dunod, 1970
1970G. M. LewisNeutrinosWykeham, London
1971A.W. WolfendaleThe search for the neutrinoUniversity of Durham
1975Leonardo SciasciaLa scomparsa di MajoranaAdelphi (1975) [French translation: La disparition de Majorana, Flammarion (1984) / English translation: The Moro affair and the mystery of Majorana, Carcanet (1987)]
1980Emilio SegrèFrom X-rays to quarks – Modern physicists and their discoveriesDover - French translation : Les physiciens modernes et leurs découvertes – Des rayons X aux quarks, Fayard, 1984. One could have expected some pages about the neutrino, but, surprisingly, it is just quoted once and there is nothing interesting about its history.
1983L.M. Brown and L. Hoddeson, ed.The Birth of Particle PhysicsCambridge University Press (1983)
1985Trevor Pinch Theory Testing in Science – The case of Solar Neutrinos Phil. Soc. Sci. 15 (1985) 167-187 - See also the book by T. Pinch (Pin1986) - French translation of an older version: "L’anomalie des neutrinos solaires: comment réagissent les théoriciens et les expérimentateurs?", in “La science telle qu’elle se fait” by Michel Callon and Bruno Latour, Editions La Découverte, 1991
1986Abraham PaisInward BoundOxford University Press
1986Trevor PinchConfronting Nature, The sociology of Solar-Neutrino DetectionKluwer/Reidel
1987Peter GalisonHow experiments endThe University of Chicago - French translation: Ainsi s’achèvent les expériences: une histoire de la physique expérimentale au 20ème siècle, La Découverte, 2002
1989John BahcallNeutrino AstrophysicsCambridge University Press
1989G. Berthomieu and M. Cribier, editorsInside the Sun, 121st IAU Colloquium, Versailles, May 1989Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1990
1989R. Cahn and G. GoldhaberExperimental Foundations of Particle PhysicsCambridge University Press - Second edition 2009
1991W. Kropp, M. Moe, L. Price, K. Schultz, H. Sobel, ed.Neutrinos and other matters: Selected works of Frederick ReinesWorld Scientific, 1991
1991K. Winter ed.Neutrino PhysicsCambridge University Press, 1991 - 2nd edition 2000 - Contains reprints of several historical papers
1992Miriam MafaiIl lungo freddo: Storia di Bruno Pontecorvo, lo scienziato che scelse l’URSSMondadori (1992)
1992Christine SuttonSpaceship NeutrinoCambridge University Press (1992)
1994John Bahcall, Raymond Davis, Peter Parker, Alexei Smirnov, Roger Ulrich ed.Solar neutrinos: the first thirty yearsAddison-Wesley, 1994
1995Michel Cribier, Michel Spiro, Daniel VignaudLa lumière des neutrinosSeuil (1995)
1996André RoussetGargamelle et les courants neutresEcole des Mines Paris
1997Los AlamosCelebrating the neutrinoLos Alamos Science 25
1997Alfred K. MannShadow of a Star, The Neutrino Story of Supernova 1987AW.H. Freeman
1997Nickolas SolomeyThe elusive neutrino: a subatomic detective storyW.H. Freeman
2001Allan FranklinAre there really neutrinos?: An Evidential HistoryWestview Press (2001)
2003François VannucciLe miroir aux neutrinosOdile Jacob (2003)
2009João Magueijo A brilliant darkness: the extraordinary life and mysterious disappearance of Ettore Majorana, the troubled genius of the nuclear age Basic Books
2010H.V. Klapdor-KleingrothausSeventy years of double-beta decayWorld Scientific
2011Frank CloseNeutrinoOxford University Press - German translation - Springer
2012Simone TurchettiThe Pontecorvo affair - A cold war defection and nuclear physicsThe University of Chicago Press Books
2012Julien Lesgourgues, Gianpiero Mangano, Sergio Pastor, Gennaro MieleNeutrino cosmologyCambridge University Press
2013S. Bilenky et al., editorsBruno Pontecorvo selected scientific works: recollections on Bruno PontecorvoSocietà Italiana di Fisica 2013 - Expanded edition of 1997 book
2013Etienne KleinEn cherchant MajoranaGallimard, 2013
2014Salvatore EspositoThe physics of Ettore MajoranaCambridge University Press
2014H. PäsThe perfect wave - With neutrinos at the Boundary of Space and TimeHarvard University Press
2015Elena Canovi, Giampaolo Co', Daniele Montanino, Francesco VissaniNeutrino: the mutant particleIthaca: Viaggio nella Scienza
2015Frank CloseHalf-life: the divided life of Bruno Pontecorvo, physicist or spy? Basic Books, 2015 [French translation: Le mystère Pontecorvo / Flammarion, 2016]
2015Ray JayawardhanaNeutrino huntersMacmillan, 2015
2016Frank Close Half-life, the divided life of Bruno PontecorvoBasic Books (2015), Conference at CERN, 28 April 2016
2017Salvatore EspositoEttore Majorana - unveiled genius and endless mysteries Springer
2018A. BettiniA brief history of Neutrino

Books about Majorana

YearAuthor(s)TitleReference
1975Leonardo SciasciaLa scomparsa di MajoranaAdelphi (1975) [French translation: La disparition de Majorana, Flammarion (1984) / English translation: The Moro affair and the mystery of Majorana, Carcanet (1987)]
2009João Magueijo A brilliant darkness: the extraordinary life and mysterious disappearance of Ettore Majorana, the troubled genius of the nuclear age Basic Books
2013Etienne KleinEn cherchant MajoranaGallimard, 2013
2014Salvatore EspositoThe physics of Ettore MajoranaCambridge University Press
2017Salvatore EspositoEttore Majorana - unveiled genius and endless mysteries Springer

Books about Pontecorvo

YearAuthor(s)TitleReference
1992Miriam MafaiIl lungo freddo: Storia di Bruno Pontecorvo, lo scienziato che scelse l’URSSMondadori (1992)
2012Simone TurchettiThe Pontecorvo affair - A cold war defection and nuclear physicsThe University of Chicago Press Books
2013S. Bilenky et al., editorsBruno Pontecorvo selected scientific works: recollections on Bruno PontecorvoSocietà Italiana di Fisica 2013 - Expanded edition of 1997 book
2015Frank CloseHalf-life: the divided life of Bruno Pontecorvo, physicist or spy? Basic Books, 2015 [French translation: Le mystère Pontecorvo / Flammarion, 2016]
2016Frank Close Half-life, the divided life of Bruno PontecorvoBasic Books (2015), Conference at CERN, 28 April 2016