HOME View All Genre

Book

Audiobook

GENRES 🌙 Dark

Elusive - Frank Close

By Frank Close

Release Date: 2022-06-14

Genre: Biographies & Memoirs

(0 ratings)
Read Download
*A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice Selection*

The first major biography of Peter Higgs, revealing how a short burst of work changed modern physics 

On July 4, 2012, the announcement came that one of the longest-running mysteries in physics had been solved: the Higgs boson, the missing piece in understanding why particles have mass, had finally been discovered. On the rostrum, surrounded by jostling physicists and media, was the particle’s retiring namesake—the only person in history to have an existing single particle named for them. Why Peter Higgs? Drawing on years of conversations with Higgs and others, Close illuminates how an unprolific man became one of the world’s most famous scientists. Close finds that scientific competition between people, institutions, and states played as much of a role in making Higgs famous as Higgs’s work did. 
A revelatory study of both a scientist and his era, Elusive will remake our understanding of modern physics. 

Elusive - Frank Close

By Frank Close

Release Date: 2022-06-14

Genre: Biographies & Memoirs

(0 ratings)
Read Download
*A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice Selection*

The first major biography of Peter Higgs, revealing how a short burst of work changed modern physics 

On July 4, 2012, the announcement came that one of the longest-running mysteries in physics had been solved: the Higgs boson, the missing piece in understanding why particles have mass, had finally been discovered. On the rostrum, surrounded by jostling physicists and media, was the particle’s retiring namesake—the only person in history to have an existing single particle named for them. Why Peter Higgs? Drawing on years of conversations with Higgs and others, Close illuminates how an unprolific man became one of the world’s most famous scientists. Close finds that scientific competition between people, institutions, and states played as much of a role in making Higgs famous as Higgs’s work did. 
A revelatory study of both a scientist and his era, Elusive will remake our understanding of modern physics. 

More by Frank Close

Particle Physics: A Very Short Introduction

Elusive

Nothing

Antimatter

Nuclear Physics

Neutrino

Trinity

The Infinity Puzzle

Destroyer of Worlds

Theories of Everything: Ideas in Profile

CHARGE

Particle Physics

The Particle Odyssey: A Journey to the Heart of Matter

Small Things and Nothing

The Void

Eclipse -- Journeys to the Dark Side of the Moon

Eclipses

Half-Life

Vita divisa

Nieuchwytna cząstka. Niezwykła historia odkrycia bozonu Higgsa

Niets

Elusive

Neutrino

Zaćmienia

Le Mystère Pontecorvo

Teorie del tutto

The New Cosmic Onion

Related Articles