7/2/2023 0 Comments Existential physics sabine![]() ![]() A WeintraubĪfter earning a bachelor’s degree from UCLA, Virginia Trimble was determined to enter the graduate astronomy program at Caltech. The Sky is for Everyone: Women Astronomers in Their Own Words, edited by Virginia Trimble and David. But this excellent book is well worth the effort. This year, for the 10th anniversary of the discovery that cemented the physicist’s reluctant fame, prominent physicist and prolific author Frank Close offers Elusive, the first full biography of Higgs.Ĭlose (also author of Theories of Everything The Infinity Puzzle Antimatter and more) focuses just as much on Higgs the particle as he does on Higgs the scientist, and the physics concepts he explores can be daunting. Telling no one where he was going, Higgs left his apartment and started walking. On the day the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics was to be announced, University of Edinburgh theoretical physicist and presumed winner Peter Higgs took himself off the grid. Elusive: How Peter Higgs Solved the Mystery of Mass, by Frank Close ![]()
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