Gamow G. Thirty Years that Shook Physics: The Story of Quantum Theory

Dover Publications, 1985. — 240 p.Popular introduction to the development of quantum theory which traces the subject's history from Max Planck's revolutionary discovery of quanta and Niels Bohr's model of the atom to anti-particles, mesons, and Enrico Fermi's nuclear research. The book is written by the famous Soviet and American physicist George Gamow known for his works in nuclear physics and for his popularization of modern science.