Elusive Elusive

Elusive

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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.  

GENRE
Biographies et mémoires
NARRATION
RB
Richard Burnip
LANGUE
EN
Anglais
DURÉE
10:56
h min
SORTIE
2022
14 juin
ÉDITIONS
Hachette Audio
TAILLE
538,3
Mo

Avis d’utilisateurs

ferrethandler ,

A great history

Beyond a biography, Close gives a great layman’s level history of particle physics.

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