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Mass Spectrometer

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Physics

Cathcart, Brian. The Fly in the Cathedral: How A Small Group of Cambridge Scientists Won The Race to Split the Atom. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2005. Accessible account of the efforts of scientists at Cambridge University to split the nucleus of the atom.

Cropper, William. Great Physicists: The Life and Times of Leading Physicists from Galileo to Hawking. Oxford University Press, 2001. Engaging biographies of 30 men and women of physics.

Daintith, John, and John O. Clark, eds. The Facts on File Dictionary of Physics. 3rd ed. Facts on File, 1999. Concise definitions covering almost everything in the field of physics.

Gamow, George, and Russell Stannard. The New World of Mr Tompkins. Cambridge University Press, 2001. Updated version of a classic introduction for the lay reader to 20th-century discoveries in physics.

Greene, Brian. The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory. Norton, 1999. Clear, nontechnical description of current research in theoretical physics.

Kaku, Michio. Einstein's Cosmos: How Albert Einstein's Vision Transformed Our Understanding of Space and Time. Norton, 2004. A concise and readable discussion of Einstein's life and contributions.

Penrose, Roger. The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe. Knopf, 2005. A narrative description of physicists' present understanding of physical reality.

Schumm, Bruce. Deep Down Things: The Breathtaking Beauty of Particle Physics. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. A physicist's explanation of the underlying principles of the physical universe.

Spectroscopy

Duckworth, H. E. Mass Spectroscopy. Cambridge University Press, 1990. A technique for sorting out atoms in a molecule, often used with infrared spectroscopy.

Macomber, Roger S. NMR Spectroscopy. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1988. A guide to the most common spectroscopic methods used for carbon-, phosphorus-, or hydrogen-containing compounds.

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