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CERN : how we found the Higgs boson / by Michael Krause.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Krause, Michael, 1956- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- European Organization for Nuclear Research--History.
- European Organization for Nuclear Research.
- Higgs bosons.
- History.
- Local Subjects:
- European Organization for Nuclear Research.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 243 pages : illustrations (color) ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Hackensack, NJ ; London : World Scientific, [2014]
- Contents:
- The history of CERN
- The practitioner: Rolf-Dieter Heuer
- The atomic theory of Democritus of Abdera
- Democritus' atomic model
- The beginning of modern physics: Galileo, Copernicus, and Kepler
- The experimentalist: Tejinder S. Virdee
- The four fundamental forces (interactions)
- Quotes by and about Newton
- Isaac Newton
- Dalton, Thomson, Rutherford, Bohr
- The man who built the LHC: Lyn Evans
- The Large Hadron Collider (LHC)
- Physics, music, and art: Tara Shears
- The theorist: John Ellis
- The standard model
- Oersted-Ampère-Faraday-Maxwell
- Hans Christian Oersted (1777-1851)
- André-Marie Ampère (1775-1836)
- Michael Faraday (1791-1867)
- Electromagnetic induction-classical field theory
- Electromagnetism: James Clerk Maxwell
- The communicator: Rolf Landua
- Edwin Powell Hubble (1889-1953)
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
- Einstein quotes
- The Japanese way: Masaki Hori
- Antimater I
- The Michelson-Morley experiment
- Antimatter II
- Einstein's cosmological constant
- The nobel prize laureate: Carlo Rubbia
- The Rubbiatron
- The American friend: Sebastian White
- The Flammarion engraving
- The Crab Nebula-Type II supernovae
- Type 1A Supernovae
- Friendly competitors: Sebastian White and Albert De Roeck
- ATLAS and CMS
- a healthy competition
- Rock 'n' roll, beer, billiards, and music: Jonathan Butterworth
- Beauty is where you find it
- The Higgs boson: and then?.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9789814623551
- 9814623555
- 9789814623469
- 9814623466
- OCLC:
- 881657199
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