Beyond the God Particle

Two leading physicists discuss the importance of the Higgs Boson, the future of particle physics, and the mysteries of the universe yet to be unraveled. Starting where Nobel Laureate Leon Lederman's bestseller The God Particle left off, this incisive new book explains what's next.

About the author

Leon M. Lederman, Nobel Laureate was the author of the highly acclaimed Quantum Physics for Poets and Symmetry and the Beautiful Universe (both coauthored with Christopher T. Hill), as well as The God Particle (with Dick Teresi). He had served as the editor of Portraits of Great American Scientists and a contributor to Science Literacy for the Twenty-First Century. He was formerly the Resident Scholar at the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy and Pritzker Professor of Science at the Illinois Institute of Technology, and he was director emeritus of Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.

Christopher T. Hill, PhD is the coauthor with Leon M. Lederman of Quantum Physics for Poets and Symmetry and the Beautiful Universe. He is a theoretical physicist (Scientist III) and the former head of Theoretical Physics at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.

Summary

Two leading physicists discuss the importance of the Higgs Boson, the future of particle physics, and the mysteries of the universe yet to be unraveled. Starting where Nobel Laureate Leon Lederman's bestseller The God Particle left off, this incisive new book explains what's next.

Product details

• Authors: Christopher T Hill, Christopher T. Hill, Hill Christopher T., Leon M Lederman, Leon M. Lederman, Leon M./ Hill Lederman, Lederman Leon M.
• Publisher: Prometheus Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.08.2024
• EAN: 9781493086986
• ISBN: 978-1-4930-8698-6
• No. of pages: 325
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Theoretical physics; SCIENCE / History, History of Science, Cosmology & the universe, Cosmology and the universe, Particle & high-energy physics, SCIENCE / Space Science / Cosmology, Particle and high-energy physics, SCIENCE / Physics / Particle