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The Higgs boson is the rock star of fundamental particles, catapulting CERN, the laboratory where it was found, into global spotlight. But what is it, why does it matter, and what exactly is CERN? In the late 1940s, a handful of visionaries were working to steer Europe towards a more peaceful future through science, and CERN, the European particle physics laboratory, was duly born. James Gillies tells the gripping story of particle physics, from the original atomists of ancient Greece through the people who made the crucial breakthroughs to CERN itself, one of the most ambitious scientific undertakings of our time, and its eventual confirmation of the Higgs boson. Weaving together the scientific and political stories of CERN's development, this book reveals how particle physics has evolved from being the realm of solitary genius to a global field of human endeavor, with CERN's Large Hadron Collider as its frontier research tool.

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James Gillies is a member of the Strategic Planning and Evaluation unit at CERN. He was head of the organization's communications group from 2003 to 2015 and is the co-author of How the Web Was Born, a history of the Internet published in 2000 that was described by The Times as being among the year's ten best books for inquisitive minds. Dennis Kleinman has been working as a voice artist for the past fourteen years and is located in Los Angeles, Ca. He is originally from Cape Town, South Africa and has lived in the US since 1980. His accent leans more towards non-regional British having spent significant time during his youth in London. In addition to working on a few children's books as a character actor, Dennis has spent a lot of his time as a voice artist in narration, documentaries and commercials, voicing ads for Land Rover and Jaguar dealers.

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