Book description
On July 4th, 2012, one of physics' most exhilarating results was
announced: a new particle - and very likely a new kind of particle -
had been discovered at the Large Hadron Collider, the huge particle
accelerator designed to reproduce energies present in the universe a
fraction of a second after the Big Bang. The particle's existence had
been speculated on for nearly fifty years: here, finally, was proof.
Professor Lisa Randall of Harvard University is one of the world's
most influential theoretical physicists, and author of the bestselling
Knocking on Heaven's Door and Warped Passages. In
Higgs Discovery she deftly explains both this epochal
discovery and it's startlingly beautiful implications.
Lisa Randall is Professor of Phsyics at Harvard University. She is
one of today's most influential and most cited cited theoretical
physicists, and has received numerous awards and honours.
Randall is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the
American Philosophical Society, the American Academy of Arts and
Sciences, and the American Physical Society, and is the recipient of
several honorary degrees.
When not solving the problems of the universe, she can be found rock
climbing, skiing, or contributing to art-science connections.
