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  1. "Felix Pirani obituary". 4 February 2016. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/feb/04/felix-pirani-obituary. 
  2. "Obituary of Felix Pirani". 10 February 2016. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/12150493/Felix-Pirani-mathematician-obituary.html. 
  3. American Institute of Physics Dean Rickles interview in Institute of Physics history June 2011 https://www.aip.org/history-programs/niels-bohr-library/oral-histories/34463
  4. "On the physical significance of the Riemann tensor", Acta Physica Polonica 15: 389–405, 1956 
  5. Pirani, Felix A. E (9 April 2009), "Republication of: On the physical significance of the Riemann tensor", General Relativity and Gravitation 41 (5): 1215–1232, doi:10.1007/s10714-009-0787-9, Bibcode: 2009GReGr..41.1215P  https://dx.doi.org/10.1007%2Fs10714-009-0787-9
  6. Pirani, F. A (1 February 1957), "Invariant formulation of gravitational radiation Theory", Phys. Rev. 105 (3): 1089–1099, doi:10.1103/PhysRev.105.1089, Bibcode: 1957PhRv..105.1089P  https://dx.doi.org/10.1103%2FPhysRev.105.1089
  7. H. Bondi, F. A. E. Pirani, I. Robinson (1959). "Gravitational waves in General Relativity III: Exact plane waves". Proc. Roy. Soc. A 251 (1267): 519–533. doi:10.1098/rspa.1959.0124. Bibcode: 1959RSPSA.251..519B. http://newt.phys.unsw.edu.au/~jkw/phys3550/GWs/Gravitational_waves_in_general_relativity_exact_plane_waves.pdf. 
  8. Hermann Bondi; F. A. E. Pirani (8 February 1989). "Gravitational Waves in General Relativity. XIII. Caustic Property of Plane Waves". Proc. Roy. Soc. A 251 (1227): 395. doi:10.1098/rspa.1989.0016. Bibcode: 1989RSPSA.421..395B.  https://dx.doi.org/10.1098%2Frspa.1989.0016
  9. Gerald Wick, "Activism with feeling" New Scientist and Science Journal 11 February 1971, pp 311–312
  10. New Scientist 20 December 1962, pp 699
  11. Peter Galison "The Roots of Special Relativity" 2001 Routledge ISBN:978-0415937153 pp 29
  12. "A Century Ago, Einstein's Theory of Relativity Changed Everything". 24 November 2015. https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/24/science/a-century-ago-einsteins-theory-of-relativity-changed-everything.html. 
  13. Princeton University Albert Einstein Archives Pirani Correspondence with Einstein http://alberteinstein.info/vufind1/Author/Home?author=Pirani%2C%20Felix%20A.%20E.%20(Author)
  14. Ehlers, Pirani, Schild The geometry of free fall and light propagation, in O'Raifeartaigh (Herausgeber) General Relativity. Papers in Honor of J. L. Synge, Oxford University Press 1972, S. 63–84
  15. Preface to "The ABC of Relativity" Routledge 2009 ISBN:978-0451609939
  16. Felix Pirani "Introducing the Universe" Totem Books 1990 ISBN:978-1874166061
  17. Felix Pirani and Christine Roche "L'Astronomie sans aspirine" Flammarion 2002 ISBN:978-2080680334
  18. Richard Fifield, New Scientist 27 August 1981, pp 533
  19. Hilary Rose, Ideology of/in the natural sciences 1980 ISBN:978-0816190027 pp xxviii
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