100 Books that shaped science in the 20th century

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from American Scientist 1999

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  1. 1.
    The Autobiography of Charles Darwin
    by Charles Darwin

  2. 2.
    A Mathematician's Apology (Canto)
    by G. H. Hardy

  3. 4.
    Disturbing The Universe (Sloan Foundation Science Series)
    by Freeman J. Dyson

  4. 5.

  5. 6.
    William Garnett: Aerial Photographs
    by William Garnett

  6. 7.
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  7. 11.
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    Hubble Atlas of Galaxies
    by Allan Sandage

  8. 12.
    Geology Illustrated
    by John S. Shelton

  9. 13.
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    Sea of Cortez : A Leisurely Journal of Travel and Research
    by John Steinbeck

  10. 16.
    The Whole Shebang : A State of the Universe(S) Report
    by Timothy Ferris

  11. 17.

  12. 18.
    A Brief History of Time : From the Big Bang to Black Holes
    by Stephen Hawking

  13. 19.
    The Mind's I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul
    by Douglas Hofstadter

  14. 20.

  15. 21.
    From One to Zero: A Universal History of Numbers
    by Georges Ifrah

  16. 22.
    The Periodic Table
    by Primo Levi

  17. 23.
    Annals of the Former World
    by John McPhee

  18. 24.
    Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
    by Carl Sagan

  19. 26.
    Symmetry
    by Hermann Weyl

  20. 27.
    Lectures on Quantum Mechanics
    by Paul A. M. Dirac

  21. 29.
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    Fractals : Form, Chance, and Dimension (Mathematics Ser.)
    by Benoit B. Mandelbrot

  22. 31.
    Principia Mathematica to *56 (Cambridge Mathematical Library)
    by Alfred North Whitehead

  23. 32.
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    A Search for Structure
    by Cyril Stanley Smith

  24. 33.
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    Theory of Games and Economic Behavior
    by John and Oskar Morgenstern Von Neumann

  25. 35.
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    Conservation of Orbital Symmetry
    by Richard B. Woodward

  26. 37.
    QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter
    by Richard P. Feynman

  27. 39.
    Inward Bound: Of Matter and Forces in the Physical World
    by Abraham Pais

  28. 40.
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    Science in History, Volumes 1-4
    by J. D. Bernal

  29. 41.
    Microbe Hunters
    by Paul de Kruif

  30. 42.
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    In the name of science
    by Martin Gardner

  31. 43.
    The Great Chain of Being: A Study of the History of an Idea
    by Arthur O. Lovejoy

  32. 44.
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  33. 45.
    The Making of the Atomic Bomb
    by Richard Rhodes

  34. 46.
    A History of Technology, Five Volumes
    by Charles Singer and E. J. Holmyard and A. R. Hall and Trevor I. Williams

  35. 47.
    The Right Stuff
    by Tom Wolfe

  36. 48.
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    Science: The Endless Frontier
    by Vannevar Bush

  37. 49.
    The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
    by Thomas S. Kuhn

  38. 50.
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    Art of the Soluble
    by P.B. Medawar

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