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Culture, history and society

Peter Higgs: the man behind the machine

05 Jul 2022
Taken from the July 2022 issue of Physics World.

Achintya Rao reviews Elusive: How Peter Higgs Solved the Mystery of Mass by Frank Close

Peter Higgs visits the CMS experiment at CERN in 2008
Particle man Peter Higgs visits the CMS experiment at CERN in 2008. (Courtesy: CERN)
As someone who was working at CERN at the time, the 2012 discovery of the Higgs boson is close to my

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Achintya Rao is a community manager at the Alan Turing Institute and a freelance science writer based in Bristol. He previously worked as a science communicator at CERN for over a decade, and recently passed his viva for a PhD in science communication from the University of the West of England, Bristol
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