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Collecting books

19 Feb 2018 Robert P Crease
Taken from the February 2018 issue of Physics World

An important document collection is about to transform the history of physics holdings at the Niels Bohr Library, says Robert P Crease

Some of the books in Dave Wenner’s history of physics collection.
Some of the books in Dave Wenner’s history of physics collection. (Courtesy: Gregg Pachkowski)
“I failed retirement,” Dave Wenner told me. Even among collectors of physics books – a quirky

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Robert P Crease is a professor in the Department of Philosophy, Stony Brook University, US and writes the monthly Critical Point column for Physics World, robertpcrease.com, e-mail robert.crease@stonybrook.edu. His latest book is The Leak: Politics, Activists, and Loss of Trust at Brookhaven National Laboratory
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