Elusive: How Peter Higgs Solved the Mystery of Mass

Title: Elusive: How Peter Higgs Solved the Mystery of Mass
Author: Frank Close
I9781720167662: 1708318
ISBN: 9781541620803
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2022
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Number of Pages: 304
Section: Biography & Autobiography | Science & Technology
Condition Note: Excellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
Publisher Description:

*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.