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The God Particle

If the Universe Is the Answer, What Is the Question?

The God Particle( )
Author: Lederman, Leon
Teresi, Dick
ISBN:978-0-618-71168-0
Publication Date:Jun 2006
Publisher:HarperCollins Publishers
Imprint:Mariner Books
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $25.99
Book Description:

In this extraordinarily accessible and enormously witty book, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Leon Lederman guides us on a fascinating tour of the history of particle physics. The book takes us from the Greeks' earliest scientific observations through Einstein and beyond in an inspiring celebration of human curiosity. It ends with the quest for the Higgs boson, nicknamed the God Particle, which scientists hypothesize will help unlock the last secrets of the subatomic universe....
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Book Details
Pages:448
Detailed Subjects: Science / Physics / General
Science / Philosophy & Social Aspects
Science / Physics / Nuclear
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):6 x 9 x 1.19 Inches
Book Weight:1.12 Pounds
Author Biography
Lederman, Leon (Author)
Leon Max Lederman was born in Manhattan, New York on July 15, 1922. He received a bachelor's degree in chemistry from City College of New York in 1943. During World War II, he served with the Army Signal Corps in France. He received a Ph.D. in physics from Columbia University in 1951. He started working at the school's particle accelerator at the Nevis Laboratories.

After leaving Columbia University, he became the director of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in 1979. His experiments with particle accelerators deepened science's understanding of the subatomic world. Lederman, Jack Steinberger, and Melvin Schwartz received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1988 for demonstrating that there were at least two kinds of particles called neutrinos. Lederman went on to lead a team at Fermilab that found the bottom quark. After retiring from Fermilab, he become a professor of physics at the University of Chicago. He wrote several books including The God Particle written with Dick Teresi. He died on October 3, 2018 at the age of 96.

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