- Published: 1 November 2022
- ISBN: 9780241521144
- Imprint: Allen Lane
- Format: Hardback
- Pages: 304
- RRP: $55.00
Elusive
How Peter Higgs Solved the Mystery of Mass















- Published: 1 November 2022
- ISBN: 9780241521144
- Imprint: Allen Lane
- Format: Hardback
- Pages: 304
- RRP: $55.00
Rich, compelling, and surprising. Fundamental physics can be equal parts awe-inspiring and head-spinning, and Close masterfully captures those qualities in this deeply satisfying tale of Peter Higgs's convoluted, and very human, journey through life and science.
author of The Ascent of Information, Caleb Scharf
Elusive is both a deep, exciting intellectual history and an elegantly told portrait of a quiet man whose 'one great idea' changed modern physics forever. Close marries the exotic details of contemporary particle physics theory with the very human aspects of how that theory came to be. An enlightening read from one of our very best writers and practitioners of physics.
author of The Last Man Who Knew Everything, David N. Schwartz
A perfect marriage of subject and writer. With verve, insight, and rigor, Frank Close beautifully illuminates the life and times of one of physics' great, unheralded giants. Elusive is a triumph of a book, and one worthy of its subject's extraordinary contributions.
bestselling author of The Founders, Jimmy Soni
A fascinating biography of an elusive particle and the equally elusive man who predicted its existence half a century before it was found. If the Higgs boson is the God particle then I feel I have glimpsed the mind of its creator.
Jim Al-Khalili