proton therapy Perfecting light transmission and absorption Cubic boron arsenide is a champion semiconductor Detecting an Aharonov–Bohm effect for gravity Book of the Year Top 10 books and the Book of the Year winner A blue ribbon () appears against the winner. 2009: The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Quantum Genius by Graham Farmelo The Physics of Rugby – Trevor Davis (Nottingham University Press) First Principles: The Crazy Business of Doing Serious Science – Howard Burton (Key Porter Books) Oliver Heaviside: Maverick Mastermind of Electricity – Basil Mahon (Institute of Engineering and Technology) Atomic: The First War of Physics and the Secret History of the Atom Bomb – Jim Baggott (Icon Books) Lives in Science – Joseph C Hermanowicz (University of Chicago Press) 13 Things That Don't Make Sense – Michael Brooks (Profile Books) Deciphering the Cosmic Number: The Strange Friendship of Wolfgang Pauli and Carl Jung – Arthur I Miller (W W Norton) Perfect Rigor – Masha Gessen (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) Plastic Fantastic: How the Biggest Fraud in Physics Shook the Scientific World – Eugenie Samuel Reich (Palgrave Macmillan) 2010: The Edge of Physics: Dispatches from the Frontiers of Cosmology by Anil Ananthaswamy The Tunguska Mystery – Vladimir Rubtsov (Springer) Coming Climate Crisis? Consider the Past, Beware the Big Fix – Claire L Parkinson (Rowman & Littlefield) How It Ends – Chris Impey (W W Norton) Lake Views: This World and the Universe – Steven Weinberg (Harvard University Press) The Quants: How a New Breed of Math Whizzes Conquered Wall Street and Nearly Destroyed It – Scott Patterson (Crown Business) Newton and the Counterfeiter – Thomas Levenson (Faber and Faber) Packing for Mars – Mary Roach (One World Publications/ W W Norton) Massive: The Hunt for the God Particle – Ian Sample (Virgin Books/Basic Books) How to Teach Quantum Physics to Your Dog – Chad Orzel 2011: Quantum Man: Richard Feynman's Life in Science by Lawrence Krauss from Case Western Reserve University Engineering Animals – Mark Denny and Alan McFadzean Measure of the Earth: the Enlightenment Expedition that Reshaped the World – Larrie Ferreiro The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos – Brian Greene Lab Coats in Hollywood: Science, Scientists and Cinema – David Kirby Quantum Man: Richard Feynman's Life in Science – Lawrence Krauss Rising Force: the Magic of Magnetic Levitation – James Livingston Modernist Cuisine – Nathan Myhrvold, Chris