Gallant, Roy A.The Ever-Changing Atom. Marshall Cavendish, 2000. An introduction to atoms, how they were discovered, and how they can be used as a source of energy. For middle-school readers.
Pullman, Bernard.The Atom in the History of Human Thought. Oxford University Press, 2001. A story of how atomic theory emerged out of the interplay between physical science, philosophy, theology, and personal presuppositions.
Pullman, Bernard. Trans. Axel R. Reisinger.The Atom in the History of Human Thought. Oxford University Press, 1998. A history of the search for that essence of all physical reality, the atom, as it progressed over the last 2,500 years.
Rhodes, Richard.The Making of the Atomic Bomb. Simon & Schuster, 1986, 1995. History of the pure and applied science involved in one of the most important events of the 20th century.
Stwertka, Albert.The World of Atoms and Quarks. Twenty-First Century Books, 1995. Traces the history of atomic theory in physics. For middle-school readers.
Von Baeyer, Hans Christian.Taming the Atom: The Emergence of the Visible Microworld. Dover, 2000. Recounts the process of discovery, from the atomism of the Greeks to the quantum revolutions of the 1920s and the theories of today.
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