Beyond

If you want to get to know the scientists behind the work even better, this is just the right place for you. In this section of Beyond, the researchers present books which have impacted their lives and their ways of thinking in meaningful ways. The books presented range from novels, to memoirs, to science books of all sorts. You can filter the books by genre or just scroll through the list. This is also a great way to get inspiration for your own reading!

Laurens W. Molenkamp

A Life of Erwin Schrodinger

Erwin Schrödinger was a brilliant and charming Austrian, one of the greatest scientists of the twentieth century, and a man with a passionate interest in people and ideas. He was best known for the discovery of wave mechanics, which won him the Nobel Prize for Physics, but his most influential book What Is Life? served to attract some of his brightest scientific contemporaries into molecular biology.

Georg Weizsäcker

The Siege of Krishnapur

An epic trilogy about the British Empire in India, the Western illusion of military and moral superiority, and the bloody rebellion for freedom.

Eckhard Janeba

Fall of Giants

Ken Follet's first volume in the acclaimed Centry trilogy tells the gripping stories of five families in 20th-century Europe. Follet describes the struggle of the suffragettes, the Russian revolution and the First World War in an intense and captivating manner.