📚 Nuclear Physics

The nucleus opened: fission, fusion, reactors, and weapons — the physics that came out of the forties and never left.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject nuclear physics 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
	Moderne Physik	Max Born	1933	21
	American Prometheus	Kai Bird	2005	19
	QED	Richard Phillips Feynman	1985	18
	Advances in Nuclear Physics	Michel Baranger	1978	16
	Chemical calculations	George I. Sackheim	1953	15
	Advances in Atomic and Molecular Physics	David R. Bates	1965	15
	Elementary nuclear theory	Hans Albrecht Bethe	1947	14
	Introduction to nuclear science	Jeff C. Bryan	2008	14
	Heller als tausend Sonnen	Robert Jungk	1956	13
	Inside the atom	Isaac Asimov	1956	12
	Der Teil und das Ganze	Werner Heisenberg	1969	12
	Nuclear theory	Judah M. Eisenberg	1900	11
	The neutrino	Isaac Asimov	1966	11
	Nuclear structure	Aage Bohr	1969	11
	The Particle at the End of the Universe	Sean M. Carroll	2012	10
	Nuclei and particles	Emilio G. Segrè	1964	9
	The Roots of Coincidence	Arthur Koestler	1972	8
	Particle physics	NATO Advanced Study Institute on Particle Physics (1985 Cargèse, France)	1987	8
	Introduction to atomic and nuclear physics	Henry Semat	1954	7
	Modern physics	Robert L. Sproull	1956	7
	Mr. Tompkins explores the atom	George Gamow	1944	6
	Radioactivity and nuclear physics	James M. Cork	1946	6
	Introductory nuclear theory	L. R. B. Elton	1959	6
	The 3-j and 6-j symbols	Manuel Rotenberg	1959	6
	Physics of nuclei and particles	Pierre Marmier	1969	6
	Subatomic physics	Hans Frauenfelder	1974	6
	Nuclear and Particle Physics	Brian R. Martin	2009	6
	Explaining the atom	Selig Hecht	1947	5
	The ghost in the atom	Paul Davies	1986	5
	High-energy particles	Bruno Benedetto Rossi	1952	4

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

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