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Elusive

How Peter Higgs Solved the Mystery of Mass

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*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.  

GÉNERO
Biografías y memorias
PUBLICADO
2022
14 de junio
IDIOMA
EN
Inglés
EXTENSIÓN
304
Páginas
EDITORIAL
Basic Books
VENDEDOR
Hachette Book Group Hachette Digital, Inc.
TAMAÑO
16
MB

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