Good Review Articles in Physics

[highflier]

Hi all,

Recently I read an article called the "History of noise" by Leon Cohen, and liked it a lot. It's essentially of a review of the developments that have taken place in the study of Noise over the past century. I realized that review articles are a great way to get a bird's eye view of the advances in a given field/sub-field.

Could anyone suggest other good review articles you might have come across. It could from any area in physics, but should be readable.

Thanks.

 

[M Quack]

You can find loads of review articles in the specialized journals:

Reviews of Modern Physics http://rmp.aps.org/

Advances in Physics http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/tadp20/current

Reports on Progress in Physics http://iopscience.iop.org/0034-4885/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Physics_review_journals

The quality of these articles is usually very good, but they can be very technical.

 

[highflier]

Thanks a lot! I did go through the websites, but the problem is precisely that there are WAY too many articles. It would be better if you or the others in the forum, could suggest good review/history-of-science articles which you had personally come across.

Thanks.

 

[M Quack]

What part of science are you interest in?

I read an interesting book about Marie Curie called "obsessive genius".

https://www.amazon.com/dp/0393051374/?tag=pfamazon01-20

 

[highflier]

Any topic in Physics and Mathematics would be good.