An impressive number of science’s most well-known figures are showcased in Scientific American Presents: Nobel Prize Winners on Physics and Astronomy, a collection of articles penned by Nobel Prize-winning doctors and scientists during the last 80 years. This book explores fascinating features of the night sky and the makeup of the universe, including black holes, supernovas, and Albert Einstein’s musings on gravity. Scientific American Presents: Nobel Prize Winners on Physics and Astrophysics also features articles from other luminaries such as Erwin Schrodinger and Niels Bohr, as well as more recent work from scientists such as Charles H. Townes, who speculated in an article published in 1990 that there may be a giant black hole at the center of our galaxy, a prediction which was proved correct within a decade. Other Nobel Prize winners included are:

• P.A.M. Dirac
• Harold C. Urey
• Willard F. Libby
• Hans A. Bethe
• Hannes Alfvén
• Anthony Hewish
• Martin Ryle
• James W. Cronin
• William A. Fowler
• Joseph Taylor
• Frederick Reines
• Vitaly L. Ginzburg

The book features a foreword from Brian May, who took a break from his astrophysics career after receiving his undergraduate degree in his 20s to tour the world as the lead guitarist for the band Queen. He finished his doctoral dissertation 36 years after he started it, and he is now the chancellor at Liverpool John Moores University in England. He is also the co-author of the book Bang! The Complete History of the Universe....

Have you ever wondered what’s happening in your brain as you go through a typical day and night? This fascinating book presents an hour-by-hour round-the-clock journal of your brain’s activities. Drawing on the treasure trove of information from Scientific American and Scientific American Mind magazines as well as original material written specifically for this book, Judith Horstman weaves together a compelling description of your brain at work and at play.

The Scientific American Day in the Life of Your Brain reveals what’s going on in there while you sleep and dream, how your brain makes memories and forms addictions and why we sometimes make bad decisions. The book also offers intriguing information about your emotional brain, and what’s happening when you’re feeling love, lust, fear and anxiety—and how sex, drugs and rock and roll tickle the same spots.

Based on the latest scientific information, the book explores your brain’s remarkable ability to change, how your brain can make new neurons even into old age and why multitasking may be bad for you.

Your brain is uniquely yours – but research is showing many of its day-to-day cycles are universal. This book gives you a look inside your brain and some insights into why you may feel and act as you do.

The Scientific American Day in the Life of Your Brain is written in the entertaining, informative and easy-to-understand style that fans of Scientific American and Scientific American Mind magazine have come to expect....

Now available for the first time in one volume, dozens of Scientific American articles written by Nobel Prize-winning doctors and scientists combine to make a unique book that will inspire and educate anyone interested in the modern history of medicine. First published in Scientific American, the articles explain to contemporary lay readers ground-breaking advances in the treatment of disease and understanding of complex biological processes. Original illustrations, charts, and graphs as they were first published in the magazine add to the uniqueness of this book.

This fascinating collection includes articles by Gerald Edelman explaining his ground-breaking work on the structure of antibodies in the human bloodstream; Salvador Luria, who wrote on the mystery of T2 viruses; and Luc Montagnier, the recipient of the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 2008 for his work on the AIDS virus during the 1980s. Other Nobel Prize winners included in this compendium include:

• A. Szent-Gyorgyi
• P.B. Medawar
• Sir Macfarlane Burnet
• M.F. Perutz
• André Lwoff
• R.R. Porter
• Renato Dulbecco
• David Baltimore
• Niels Kaj Jerne
• Michael S. Brown
• Susumu Tonegawa
• J. Michael Bishop
• Stanley B. Prusiner

The book features a foreword from John Rennie, the current editor-in-chief at Scientific American, popular science writer, and former researcher at Harvard Medical School....