Particle Physics: A Very Short Introduction: 109 (Very Short Introductions) - Softcover

Close, Frank

 
9780192804341: Particle Physics: A Very Short Introduction: 109 (Very Short Introductions)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0192804340 ISBN 13: 9780192804341
Publisher: OUP Oxford, 2004

Synopsis

Best-selling author Frank Close provides a compelling introduction to the fundamental particles that make up the universe

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About the Author

Frank Close is Professor of Physics at Oxford University and a Fellow of Exeter College. He was formerly the Head of the Theoretical Physics Division at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, and Head of Communications and Public Education at CERN. He is the author of several books, including the best-selling Lucifer's Legacy (OUP, 2000), and was the winner of the Kelvin Medal of the Institute of Physics for his 'outstanding contributions to the public understanding of physics'. His other books include The Cosmic Onion (1983), The Particle Explosion (1987), End (1988), Too Hot to Handle (1991), and The Particle Odyssey (OUP, 2002). In 2013 Professor Close was awarded the Royal Society Michael Faraday Prize for communicating science.

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Publisher
OUP Oxford
Publication date
2004
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0192804340
ISBN 13 
9780192804341
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
160

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