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Elusive by Frank Close
26.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
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
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Category: Science & Natural History
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
The Infinity Puzzle: The Personalities, Politics, and Extraordinary Science Behind the Higgs Boson by Frank Close
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Category: Science & Natural History
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
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Category: History
'Trinity' was the codename for the test explosion of the atomic bomb in New Mexico on 16 July 1945. This exceptional book - Trinity - tells the story of the bomb's metaphorical father, Rudolf Peierls; his intellectual son, the atomic spy, Klaus Fuchs, and the ghosts of the security services in Britain, ...Show more
Trinity: The Treachery and Pursuit of the Most Dangerous Spy in History by Frank Close
55.00 AUD
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
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