John Strong (1)

Strong was a lucid writer and excellent experimentalist who became a role model for young physicists. His book provides the relevant theory for use by practitioners. An Appendix on Fourier spectroscopy - at the time (1950s), an impractical but promising technique - provides a glimpse of leading-edge experimental science. Inspirational.

Also illustrated by the the beautiful drawings of Roger Hayward, who also illustrated the Amateur Scientist section of Scientific American magazine.

Physics as an art, a practice, a regimen, a lifestyle. Strongly recommended.

Also illustrated by the the beautiful drawings of Roger Hayward, who also drew the Amateur Scientist section of Scientific American magazine.

The text and the figures create a work of art, and one of those rare books to own in hardback.