Lucid, accessible introduction to the influential theory of energy and matter features careful explanations of Dirac's anti-particles, Bohr's model of the atom, and much more.  Meer

Over 120 delightful pen-and-ink illustrations by the author add another dimension of good-natured charm to these wide-ranging explorations. A mind-expanding volume for the layman and the science-minded.  Meer

Since his first appearance over sixty years ago, Mr Tompkins has become known and loved by many thousands of readers as the bank clerk whose fantastic dreams and adventures lead him into a world inside the atom.  Meer

George Gamow's first Tompkins book, Mr Tompkins in Wonderland, created a 'toy universe' where, as his son comments in the preface to this 2010 reprint, 'the maximum speed of light is assumed to be 10 miles per hour, while all the laws of general relativity still hold'.  Meer

First published in 1945, in the aftermath of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Atomic Energy in Cosmic and Human Life offers a unique account of the problem of atomic energy and the underlying principles of radioactive decay.  Meer

Die Lektüre der insgesamt fünfzehn Kapitel über die erlebten Träume des Mr. Tompkins in seinem Versuch, moderne Wissenschaft zu verstehen, ist ein Hochgenuß, hauptsächlich wegen der überraschenden Geistesblitze, die dem Autor - einem in die Physikgeschichte eingegangenen Wissenschaftler - eingefallen sind.  Meer