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Formato
Kindle
Pagine
347
Lingua
Inglese
Pubblicato
Jan 1, 2022
Editore
Basic Books
Edizione
2
ISBN-10
1541620798
ISBN-13
9781541620797
Descrizione
*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.
Generi
Mistero
Biografia
Autobiografia e Memorie
Scienza e Tecnologia
Storia
Natura