Elusive
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The story of the Higgs boson - the so-called 'God particle' - and
the man who thought of itIn the summer of 1964, a reclusive young
professor at the University of Edinburgh wrote two scientific
papers which have come to change our understanding of the most
fundamental building blocks of matter and the nature of the
universe. Peter Higgs posited the existence an almost infinitely
tiny particle - today known as the Higgs boson - which is the key
to understanding why particles have mass, and but for which atoms
and molecules could not exist. For nearly 50 years afterwards, some
of the largest projects in experimental physics sought to
demonstrate the physical existence of the boson which Higgs had
proposed.Sensationally, confirmation came in July 2012 at the Large
Hadron Collider at CERN in Geneva. The following year Higgs was
awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics. One of the least-known giants
of science, he is the only person in history to have had a single
particle named for them.This revelatory book is 'not so much a
biography of the man but of the boson named after him'. It
brilliantly traces the course of much of twentieth-century physics
from the inception of quantum field theory to the completion of the
'standard model' of particles and forces, and the pivotal role of
Higgs's idea in this evolution. It also investigates the contested
history of Higgs's responsibility for the breakthrough when there
were others close by, and explains why the boson is named for him
alone.Competition between institutions and states, Close shows,
then played as much of a role in creating Higgs's fame as his work
itself. Drawing on conversations with Higgs over a decade (a figure
generally as elusive as his particle) this is a superb study of a
scientist and his era - and of how scientific knowledge advances.
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