📚 Isotopes

Atoms of the same element weighing differently: tracers, dating, medicine, and the weapons question attached.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject isotopes in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Stable isotope geochemistry	Jochen Hoefs	1973	15
	Radiogenic isotope geology	Alan P. Dickin	1995	11
	Stable isotope forensics	Wolfram Meier-Augenstein	2010	10
	Radioaktivität und die neueste Entwicklung der Lehre von den chemischen Elementen	Kasimir Fajans	1919	7
	The superfluid phases of helium 3	Dieter Vollhardt	1990	7
	Isotopes	U.S. Atomic Energy Commission.	1949	6
	Stable Isotopes	Howard Griffiths	1997	6
	Radioactive and stable isotope geology	H.-G Attendorn	1899	5
	Isotopes	Francis William Aston	1922	5
	Mass spectra and isotopes	Francis William Aston	1933	4
	Isotope geology	Kalervo Rankama	1954	4
	Isotopic and cosmic chemistry	Harmon Craig	1964	4
	Principles of isotope geology	Gunter Faure	1977	4
	Stable Isotope Ecology	Brian Fry	2007	4
	Isotope Geology	Claude J. Allègre	2008	4
	Molybdenum-99 for Medical Imaging	Committee on State of Molybdenum-99 Production and Utilization and Progress Toward Eliminating Use of Highly Enriched Ur	2016	4
	Irradiation of mice and men	John F. Loutit	1962	3
	Carbon-14	Vernon F. Raaen	1967	3
	Uranium Enrichment	Stelio Villani	1979	3
	Fractionation of the carbon isotopes during photosynthesis	J. C. Vogel	1980	3
	Iodine-Labeled Plasma Proteins	Erwin Regoeczi	1984	3
	Cobalt-60 Teletherapy	Montague Cohen	1984	3
	Isotopes in the Earth Sciences	H.-G. Attendorn	1988	3
	Radioactive Isotopes in Clinical Medicine and Research	R. Hofer	1991	3
	Stable isotopes and plant carbon/water relations	A. E. Hall	1993	3
	Isotopes in the Water Cycle	Pradeep K. Aggarwal	2006	3
	Stable Isotopes in Ecology and Environmental Science	Robert Michener	2008	3
	Compound-Specific Stable Isotope Analysis	Maik A. Jochmann	2012	3
	The Discovery of Isotopes	Michael Thoennessen	2016	3
	Opportunities and Approaches for Supplying Molybdenum-99 and Associated Medical Isotopes to Global Markets	National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine	2018	3

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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