Lucifer'S Legacy by Frank Close

Lucifer'S Legacy by Frank Close

This is Frank Close's masterpiece -- his best book, and one of the very best introductions to physics for the layperson. Close is a master expositor. -- The (London) Sunday Times
Close's writing is beguiling, mingling personal and historical anecdote with carefully measured doses of exposition in such a way as to guide the reader painlessly into rather deep intellectual waters. -- Nature
Life, intrinsically related to asymmetries, is the theme of this book, and Close offers us an absorbing and scientifically correct account of symmetry and its deep implications. -- CERN Courier
This thought-provoking work by a physicist and popular science writer explores the origins of asymmetry from the molecular level to that of the universe at large. Frank Close takes readers on a tour of asymmetry that ranges from the development of human embryos to the mysterious Higgs boson, or God particle, and ongoing research at Switzerland's CERN laboratory.

Frank Close is the author of 15 popular physics books, including Half-Life, a biography of Bruno Pontecorvo, Antimatter, The Infinity Problem, and Very Short Introductions to Nothing and Particle Physics, which won an award. He is a former Head of Communications and Public Education at CERN and a professor of physics at Oxford University. He received the Royal Society's Michael Faraday Award for science communication in 2014, and he is the only scientist to have won the Association of British Science Writers' Prize three times.

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ISBN 13	9780486491677
ISBN 10	0486491676
Title	Lucifer'S Legacy
Author	Frank Close
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Dover Publications Inc.
Year published	2014-02-28
Number of pages	272
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