This book contains a large part of J S Bell's publications, including those that are recognized as his most important achievements, as well as others that are for no good reason less well known. The selection was made by Mary Bell, Martinus Veltman and Kurt Gottfried, all of whom were involved with John Bell both personally and professionally throughout a large part of his life. An introductory chapter has been written to help place the selected papers in a historical context and to review their significance.

This book comprises an impressive collection of outstanding scientific work of one of the greatest scientists of the recent past, and it will remain important and influential for a long time to come.

Contents:

• Accelerator Physics (edited by M Bell)
• Linear Accelerator Phase Oscillations
• Electron Cooling in Storage Rings
• Capture of Cooling Electrons by Cool Protons
• Radiation Damping and Lagrange Invariants
• High Energy Physics (edited by M Veltman)
• Time Reversal in Field Theory
• Magnetic Moments of Nuclei and the Nuclear Many-Body Problem
• Time Reversal in Beta-Decay
• A Variational Method in Field Theory
• Foundations of Quantum Mechanics (edited by K Gottfried)
• On the Problem of Hidden Variables in Quantum Mechanics
• On the Einstein Podolsky Rosen Paradox
• The Moral Aspect of Quantum Mechanics
• Introduction to the Hidden-Variable Question
• and other papers

"The Bell Book ... contains 93 of his 147 publications ... Bell published more in conference proceedings and special issues and less in regular journals ... which is what makes such greatest hits packages useful."

"Anybody knows J S Bell from his inequality, but that his engagement in fundamental questions of quantum physics and philososphy was much broader one can learn from this book."