Elusive : how Peter Higgs solved the mystery of mass

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"Elusive : how Peter Higgs solved the mystery of mass"
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Frank Close
出版者
  • Basic Books
  • First edition
出版年月
  • 2022
書籍サイズ
25 cm

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Includes bibliographical references (p.263-273) and index

Summary: "On July 4, 2012, scientists at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN gathered to make a momentous announcement: after nearly a half century of speculation and work, the Higgs boson had been found, and the mystery of mass solved. Not far offstage was the man for whom the particle had been named: Peter Higgs. The Higgs boson is an anomaly. No other basic particle of physics is named after a person. And in a point of almost supreme irony, it is named after a man whom most physicists would call one of the most retiring people ever to join the field-indeed, on the day the Nobel committee called him to tell him he had won, Higgs had fled to a fish-and-chip shop by the sea, and ended up learning of his prize from a stranger who, recognizing him, stopped him the street to tell him the news. Or at least that's one way to tell the story. In Elusive, physicist and historian Frank Close tells for the first time ever the story of Peter Higgs' life and work. It is, as the title suggests, hard to pin down. How did Hig

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  • CRID
    1130293778502706090
  • NII書誌ID
    BC11807902
  • ISBN
    9781541620803
  • LCCN
    2021050657
  • Web Site
    https://lccn.loc.gov/2021050657
  • 本文言語コード
    en
  • 出版国コード
    us
  • タイトル言語コード
    en
  • 出版地
    • New York
  • 分類
  • データソース種別
    • CiNii Books
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