
Book Reviews—Science Books for Young People

Book Reviews—Science Books for Young People

The Strange Life of Charles Babbage
This remarkable Englishman tried to build modern computing machines a century ahead of their time. His failure left him hating mankind in general and organ-grinders in particular

The Neutron
The uncharged fundamental particle is used on a vast scale to propagate the nuclear chain reaction and to probe the nature of matter. Of itself, however, it is something of an enigma

Natural History of a Virus
Virologists have pursued the organism that causes herpes simplex, the common fever blister or cold sore, by the subtle track it leaves within its host