The God Particle  (English, Paperback, Lederman Leon)

Nobel Laureate Leon Leaderman's has successfully explained the complex particle physics to a commoner in a lucid manner with is trademark wit; not completely understood yet by scientific community .The dialogues, though employed to explain new concept in science by Galileo and earlier philosophers, is certainly a novel way to explain in contemporary times. The God particle( Higgs Boson) though was not detected with any degree of statistical significance when the book was written, the necess...

Quantum physics fot poets was a masterpiece created by Sir Lederman. This book is also great, however, completely on my opinion, this book contains unnecessary history. Otherwise a very good read.

I have read a few books on particle physics written for layman but surely this ranks the highest among all of them. Leon Lederman uses pun so sublimely that you need to think hard whether its a comedy genre or educational !!! It is probably the most interesting book I have ever read.