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020			_a9780141997582
082			_a539.092 _bCLO
100			_aClose, Frank E.
245			_aElusive : how Peter Higgs solved the mystery of mass
260			_bPenguin Books, _c2022 _aLondon :
300			_axiii, 287 p. ; _bill., _c20 cm
365			_b699.00 _cINR _d01
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_aIn 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 nature of the universe. Peter Higgs posited the existence an almost infinitely tiny particle - today known as the Higgs boson - which is the key to understanding why particles have mass, and but for which atoms and molecules could not exist. For nearly 50 years afterwards, some of the largest projects in experimental physics sought to demonstrate the physical existence of the boson which Higgs had proposed. Sensationally, confirmation came in July 2012 at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Geneva. The following year Higgs was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics. One of the least-known giants of science, he is the only person in history to have had a single particle named for them.
650			_aBiographies
650			_aGreat Britain
650			_aHiggs bosons
650			_aHiggs, Peter, 1929-
650			_aPhysicists
650			_aQuantum theory
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