Scientific American Library Series is a 20-book series with 20 released primary works first released in 1982 with contributions by Philip Morrison, Phylis Morrison, Office of Charles and Ray Eames, Richard C. Lewontin, Steven Weinberg, Peter Atkins, Solomon H. Snyder, Arthur T. Winfree, J.E. Gordon, John Robinson Pierce, A. Michael Noll, Thomas Banchoff, George Armitage Miller, R. McNeill Alexander, Samuel H. Barondes, Keith Devlin, T.E. Graedel, Graedel, Thomas E. Graedel, Thomas E., Paul D. Stolley, Tamar Lasky, Mitchell Begelman, Martin J. Rees, Vaclav Smil, J. Allan Hobson, Larry R. Squire, and Eric R. Kandel.