Brian Cox
Brian Cox is a British physicist and professor of particle physics at the University of Manchester. He is best known for his science programs, including "Wonders of the Solar System" and "Human Universe," which explore the cosmos and our place within it. His book recommendations reflect interests in science fiction, physics, and the future.
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Books Recommended by Brian Cox 10
What Is Real?
"Terrific."
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Gravity
"The best intro text book in my view."
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Life Ascending
"A great book for many reasons."
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Empire of the Clouds
"Describes how we damaged our aviation industry with a series of short-sighted political decisions in the late 60s and 70s."
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"This will be worth hearing - Martin Rees’s book ‘On The Future’ is very good."
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Consilience
"I agree. Superb from @matthewsyed . As an aside, E. O. Wilson’s book ‘Consilience’ made a big impact on me when I first read it in the late ‘90s."
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Childhood's End
"Re-reading Clarke’s Childhood’s End after decades. Wonderful book - set in 2050 ish but an astronomer has to go to a library to look up a star’s catalogue number. Very few sci-fi novels predicted the internet!"
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The Secret Body
"This is a great book. I’ve read an advanced copy :-)"
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The Black Hole War
"@Robwilliams71 A good place to start on the Black Holes thing is “The Black Hole War” by Leonard Susskind. For the quantum computing stuff, it’s so recent that nobody has yet written a book on it!"
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Kindred
"This is indeed a superb book!"
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