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02996aam a2200421 i 4500 001 8F07AC0C33F211EDB1080E162CECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220914010032 008 211202t20222022nyua b 001 0deng 010 $a 2021050657 020 $a 1541620801 020 $a 9781541620803 035 $a (OCoLC)1275356036 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d TOH $d OCLCO $d IEB $d JAS $d GL4 $d UAP $d CDX $d IMT $d YDX $d YUS $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-uk--- 050 00 $a QC16.H53 $b C56 2022 082 00 $a B $a B $2 23/eng/20211216 100 1 $a Close, F. E., $e author. 245 10 $a Elusive : $b how Peter Higgs solved the mystery of mass / $c Frank Close. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Basic Books, $c 2022. 300 $a xi, 287 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 25 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-273) and index. 505 0 $a Prelude: The case of the disappearing professor -- A name on the board -- The single helix -- The particle explosion -- The superconductor -- Higgs' epiphany -- Now we are six -- Birth of a boson -- "Peter--you're famous!" -- The first disappearance--1976 -- Every journey begins with a single step -- A machine for 1 TeV --- Father of the God particle -- The "doomsday machine" -- "We should go to CERN" -- The fourth of July -- "Time to plan my escape" -- The glittering prizes -- Zigzag -- Epilogue: The view across the plains -- Appendix 4.1: Ginzburg and Landau's Mexican hat -- Appendix 5.1: Higgs' first paper decoded -- Appendix 5.1: Higgs' second paper decoded. 520 $a "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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Higgs, Peter, $d 1929- 650 0 $a Physicists $z Great Britain $v Biography. 650 0 $a Higgs bosons. 650 0 $a Quantum theory. 650 0 $a Biographies. 941 $a 4 952 $l USUX851 $d 20230302020740.0 952 $l PNAX964 $d 20221221010136.0 952 $l DBPE173 $d 20220927012546.0 952 $l XXPH787 $d 20220914010504.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=8F07AC0C33F211EDB1080E162CECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IWBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search