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Elusive (Hardcover)
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Elusive (Hardcover)
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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.
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