The Infinity Puzzle

The personalities, politics, and extraordinary science behind the Higgs boson

Close, Frank (Professor of Theoretical Physics, Oxford University, and Fellow in Physics, Exeter College, Oxford)

Oxford University Press, 2013

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Forty years ago, three physicists - Peter Higgs, Gerard 't Hooft, and James Bjorken - made the spectacular breakthroughs that led to the world's largest experiment, CERN's Large Hadron Collider. Against a backdrop of high politics and billion dollar budgets, this is the story of their work, the quest for the Higgs boson, and its eventual discovery.

ISBN-13
9780199673308
ISBN-10
0199673306
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Year
2013
Publication date
2013-03-28
Pages
432
Dimensions
232 x 154 x 24
Weight
648