📚 Radiation

Energy that travels and penetrates: discovery, measurement, medical use, and the danger that made the word frightening.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject radiation 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
	Pathways Through Science (Nuffield Modular Science)	Nuffield-Chelsea Curriculum Trust	1992	71
	Radiation protection	International Commission on Radiological Protection.	1959	27
	The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks	Rebecca Skloot	2009	25
	Radioactive transformations	Ernest Rutherford	1906	18
	Principes de radiobiologie	Zénon M. Bacq	1955	17
	Radiation histopathology	George W. Casarett	1980	17
	Introduction to radiochemistry	Gerhart Friedlander	1949	14
	X rays and crystal structure	William Henry Bragg	1915	12
	Measurement and detection of radiation	Nicholas Tsoulfanidis	1983	12
	Secret of Life	Georges Lakhovsky	1939	11
	Self-study manual on optical radiation measurements	Fred E. Nicodemus	1976	11
	Radiologic science for technologists	Stewart C. Bushong	1975	10
	Introduction to Radiation Protection	Alan Martin	2006	10
	Vorlesungen über die Theorie der Wärmestrahlung	Max Planck	1906	9
	X-rays and their applications	James Graham Brown	1966	8
	Fundamental physics of radiology	W. J. Meredith	1968	8
	Principles of nuclear radiation detection	Geoffrey G. Eichholz	1979	8
	Atoms, Radiation, and Radiation Protection	James E. Turner	2007	8
	Radioactive substances and their radiations	Ernest Rutherford	1913	7
	Radiological physics	M. E. J. Young	1957	7
	Radiobiology for the radiologist	Eric J. Hall	1973	7
	Radiation detection and measurement	Glenn F. Knoll	1979	7
	Gaseous Radiation Detectors	Fabio Sauli	2014	7
	Modern views of electricity	Oliver Lodge	1889	6
	Atomic medicine	Charles Frederick Behrens	1949	6
	Introduction to health physics	Herman Cember	1969	6
	Radiation risks	David Sumner	1987	6
	Physics and Engineering of Radiation Detection	Syed Naeem Ahmed	2007	6
	The universe of light	William Henry Bragg	1933	5
	Nuclear radiation physics	Ralph Eugene Lapp	1948	5

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

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