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Elusive by Frank Close
Category: Science
The story of the Higgs boson - the so-called 'God particle' - and the man who thought of it In 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 ...Show more
Elusive: How Peter Higgs Solved the Mystery of Mass by Frank Close
Category: Science
The story of the Higgs boson - the so-called 'God particle' - and the man who thought of it. In 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 th ...Show more
Half Life: The Divided Life of Bruno Pontecorvo, Physicist or Spy by Frank Close
Category: Biography
The memo landed on Kim Philby's desk in Washington, DC, in July 1950. Three months later, Bruno Pontecorvo, a physicist at Harwell, Britain's atomic energy lab, disappeared without a trace. When he re-surfaced six years later, he was on the other side of the Iron Curtain. One of the most brilliant scien ...Show more
Neutrino by Frank Close
Category: Popular Science
Neutrinos are as near to nothing as anything we know, and so elusive that they are almost invisible. Frank Close tells the story of the neutrino, explaining their growing significance, and looking at how neutrino astronomy is at the threshold of enabling us to look into distant galaxies and to finding e ...Show more
Nothing: A very short introduction by Frank Close
Category: Science | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
What is 'nothing'? What remains when you take all the matter away? Can empty space - a void - exist? This Very Short Introduction explores the science and the history of the elusive void: from Aristotle who insisted that the vacuum was impossible, via the theories of Newton and Einstein, to our very lat ...Show more
Particle Physics: a Very Short Introduction by Frank Close
Category: Science | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
In Particle Physics: A Very Short Introduction, best-selling author Frank Close provides a compelling and lively introduction to the fundamental particles that make up the universe. The book begins with a guide to what matter is made up of and how it evolved, and goes on to describe the fascinating and ...Show more
Particle Physics: a Very Short Introduction: A Very Short Introduction by Frank Close
Category: Popular Science | Series: Very Short Introductions
In this compelling introduction to the fundamental particles that make up the universe, Frank Close takes us on a journey into the atom to examine known particles such as quarks, electrons, and the ghostly neutrino. Along the way he provides fascinating insights into how discoveries in particle physics ...Show more
The Infinity Puzzle: The Personalities, Politics, and Extraordinary Science Behind the Higgs Boson by Frank Close
Category: Science
We are living in a Golden Age of Physics. Forty or so years ago, three brilliant, yet little-known scientists - an American, a Dutchman, and an Englishman - made breakthroughs which later inspired the construction of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Geneva: a 27 kilometre-long machine that cost ten ...Show more
Trinity: The Treachery and Pursuit of the Most Dangerous Spy in History by Frank Close
Category: History
Klaus Fuchs knew more nuclear secrets in the last two years of the Second World War than anyone else in Britain. He was taken onto the Manhattan Project in the USA as a trusted physicist - and was the conduit by which knowledge of the highest classification passed to the Soviet Union. When Truman announ ...Show more