- Oppenheimer, portrait of an enigma, Jeremy Bernstein
- American Prometheus, the triumph and tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer, by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin
- Astronaut and physicist Sally Ride, Margaret J. Goldstein
- Quantum man, Richard Feynman's life in science, Lawrence M. Krauss
- Classic Feynman, all the adventures of a curious character, Richard P. Feynman ; edited by Ralph Leighton
- "What do you care what other people think?", by Richard P. Feynman
- Something incredibly wonderful happens, Frank Oppenheimer and the world he made up, K. C. Cole
- Time traveler, a scientist's personal mission to make time travel a reality, Ronald L. Mallett with Bruce Henderson
- American Prometheus, the triumph and tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer, Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin
- Big science, Ernest Lawrence, the cyclotron, and the birth of the military-industrial complex, Michael Hiltzik
- Stealing God's thunder, Benjamin Franklin's lightning rod and the invention of America, Philip Dray
- My Einstein, essays by twenty-four of the world's leading thinkers on the man, his work, and his legacy, edited by John Brockman
- Time traveler, a scientist's personal mission to make time travel a reality, Ronald L. Mallett with Bruce Henderson
- The ruin of J. Robert Oppenheimer, and the birth of the modern arms race, Priscilla J. McMillan
- Edward Teller, the real Dr. Strangelove, Peter Goodchild
- Maker of patterns, an autobiography through letters, Freeman Dyson
- Perfectly reasonable deviations from the beaten track, selected letters of Richard P. Feynman, edited and with an introduction by Michelle Feynman ; foreword by Timothy Ferris
- J. Robert Oppenheimer, a life, Abraham Pais ; with supplemental material by Robert P. Crease
- Brotherhood of the bomb, the tangled lives and loyalties of Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence, and Edward Teller, Gregg Herken
- "Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman!", adventures of a curious character, Richard P. Feynman as told to Ralph Leighton ; edited by Edward Hutchings
- Judging Edward Teller, a closer look at one of the most influential scientists of the twentieth century, István Hargittai
- An atomic love story, the extraordinary women in Robert Oppenheimer's life, Shirley Streshinsky and Patricia Klaus
- Quantum man, Richard Feynman's life in science, Lawrence M. Krauss
- Robert Oppenheimer, a life inside the center, Ray Monk
- The physicist & the philosopher, Einstein and Bergson and the debate that changed our understanding of time, Jimena Canales
- The Pope of Physics, Enrico Fermi and the birth of the Atomic Age, Gino Segrè and Bettina Hoerlin
- Oppenheimer, the tragic intellect, Charles Thorpe
- Maverick genius, the pioneering odyssey of Freeman Dyson, Phillip F. Schewe
- Bolt of fate, Benjamin Franklin and his electric kite hoax, Tom Tucker
- Do you see what I see?:, memoirs of a blind biker, Russell Targ
- Science policy up close, John H. Marburger III ; edited by Robert P. Crease
- Stealing God's thunder, Benjamin Franklin's lighning rod and the invention of America, Philip Dray
- The Jasons, the secret history of science's postwar elite, Ann Finkbeiner
- Einstein, a life, Denis Brian
- American Prometheus, [the triumph and tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer], Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin
- Tuxedo Park, a Wall Street tycoon and the secret palace of science that changed the course of World War II, Jennet Conant
- The autobiography of Robert A. Millikan, Robert A. Millikan
- Unbelievable, the story of a small boy who defeats huge physical and psychological challenges to become a brilliant scientist working among the Who's Who on the atomic bomb, Stella Brooks
- Genius, the life and science of Richard Feynman, James Gleick
- Einstein, Picasso, space, time and the beauty that causes havoc, Arthur I. Miller
- The last man who knew everything, the life and times of Enrico Fermi, father of the nuclear age, David N. Schwartz
- "Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman!", Richard P. Feynman
- Quantum man, Lawrence M. Krauss
- "Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman!", Richard P. Feynman
- Ordinary geniuses, Max Delbrück, George Gamow, and the origins of genomics and big bang cosmology, Gino Segrè
- Feynman's rainbow, a search for beauty in physics and life, Leonard Mlodinow
- The general and the genius, Groves and Oppenheimer-- The unlikely partnership that built the atom bomb, James Kunetka
- Genius, the life and science of Richard Feynman, James Gleick
- The general and the genius:, Groves and Oppenheimer--the unlikely partnership that built the atom bomb, James Kunetka
- J. Robert Oppenheimer and the American century, David C. Cassidy