Our favourite pictures of 2012
From bio-engineered jellyfish and levitating drops to lunar landscapes
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Physics World’s 2012 Book of the Year
An entertaining tale of how an oddball group of physicists revived interest in quantum fundamentals wins this year's top honour
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Von Neumann’s computer
A book on the early history of practical computers, reviewed by Martin Campbell-Kelly
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Between the lines: Christmas special
A bumper crop of books reviewed by Margaret Harris and Tushna Commissariat
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What made Bell Labs special?
A history of Bell Labs, reviewed by Andrew Gelman
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Soft matter’s charismatic pioneer
A biography of Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, now available in English translation, reviewed by Tom McLeish
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A strange cat in Dublin
A new biography of Erwin Schrödinger, reviewed by Cormac O'Raifeartaigh
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Between the lines
A graphic novel about the first atomic bomb and a biography of the anti-nuclear campaigner Joseph Rotblat, reviewed by Margaret Harris
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Hans Bethe’s early life
Jeremy Bernstein reviews Nuclear Forces: the Making of the Physicist Hans Bethe
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Between the lines
Books about sand, paradoxes in physics and an ill-fated polar expedition, reviewed by Margaret Harris
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