1. Annual review of nuclear science Volume 2, Annual reviews, inc., Stanford, USA, 1953, 429 pages. Particularly, R.A. Alpher and R.C. Herman: The origin and abundance distribution of the elements, p 1–40.
2. Yuri A. Alexandrov, Fundamental properties of neutron, Clarendon Press, Oxford, United Kingdom, ISBN 0-19-851735-1, 1992, 210 pages. To know everything on the essential particle of reactor physics. Every property (mass, spin, magnetic moment, …) is analyzed in a specific chapter.
3. Henri Arzeliès, Rayonnement et dynamique du corpuscule chargé fortement accéléré [Radiation and dynamics of the highly-accelerated charged body], Gauthier-Villars, Paris, ISBN 0-07-002380-8, 1966, 425 pages. Apart from its foreword, this book exposes the theories of Lorentz, Abraham, Feynman and Wheeler (absorbing concept) very clearly. The hypotheses behind each model are contrasted and the bibliography is exhaustive.
4. Loïc Barbo, Denis Beaudoin, Michel Laguës, L’expérience retrouvée [The re-discovered experiment], Belin, Paris, ISBN 2-7011-4278-5, 2005, 157 pages. This work was published during an exhibition on Pierre Curie. Instrumentation is very well documented and the know-how of the Curies for designing and using new measuring instruments is described. Denis Beaudoin is a well-known relative of the famous high-precision instrument maker Beaudoin.
5. Roger C. Barret, Daphne F. Jackson, Nuclear sizes and structure, Clarendon, Oxford, United Kingdom, ISBN 0-19-851272-4, 1977, 566 pages. This work presents a summary of the different models concerning the constitution of the atom and the state of their experimental data.