CERN and the Higgs Boson, James Gillies
CERN and the Higgs Boson, James Gillies
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CERN and the Higgs Boson
The Global Quest for the Building Blocks of Reality

Author: James Gillies

Narrator: Dennis Kleinman

Unabridged: 4 hr 56 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/07/2021

Synopsis

The Higgs boson is the rock star of fundamental particles, catapulting CERN, the laboratory where it was found, into global spotlight. But what is it, why does it matter, and what exactly is CERN? In the late 1940s, a handful of visionaries were working to steer Europe towards a more peaceful future through science, and CERN, the European particle physics laboratory, was duly born. James Gillies tells the gripping story of particle physics, from the original atomists of ancient Greece through the people who made the crucial breakthroughs to CERN itself, one of the most ambitious scientific undertakings of our time, and its eventual confirmation of the Higgs boson. Weaving together the scientific and political stories of CERN's development, this book reveals how particle physics has evolved from being the realm of solitary genius to a global field of human endeavor, with CERN's Large Hadron Collider as its frontier research tool.

About James Gillies

James Gillies is a member of the Strategic Planning and Evaluation unit at CERN. He was head of the organization's communications group from 2003 to 2015 and is the co-author of How the Web Was Born, a history of the Internet published in 2000 that was described by The Times as being among the year's ten best books for inquisitive minds.

About Dennis Kleinman

Dennis Kleinman is an experienced audiobook narrator. His body of work includes drama, mysteries, fan fiction, and adventure. Born in Cape Town, South Africa, he emigrated to the United States in 1980 after completing his bachelor of arts degree at the University of Cape Town. He lives with his family in Los Angeles.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jason on November 07, 2021

Much more about the history of CERN itself than about the Higgs Boson for my taste.......more

Goodreads review by John on July 31, 2021

I picked up this book wanting to get some idea of the relationship between mass and the Higgs boson as I’ve been thinking about property as relationship between two entities rather than inherent in the entity. What I got was a very brief overview of this and a history of CERN and the pathway to dete......more

Goodreads review by Susan on November 20, 2018

A little hard going on places but for the novice who just wants to know - ideal. A big put off by the constant abbreviations used for the various machines. Understandable instead of printing names in full all the time but a glossary at the back - or beginning - would have be ideal to refer to. Other......more

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