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Check the sections below to see books and other resources recently added to the library's collection.

Remembering Peter Higgs (1929-2024)

Distinguished physicist Professor Peter Higgs, recipient of the 2013 Nobel Prize, passed away earlier this year aged 94. As a young professor at the University of Edinburgh in the 1960s, he predicted the existence of a fundamental physical particle that became known as the Higgs boson.

Elusive: How Peter Higgs Solved the Mystery of Mass by F. E. Close
"The first major biography of Peter Higgs, revealing how a short burst of work changed modern physics. On July 4, 2012, the announcement came that one of the longest-running mysteries in physics had been solved: the Higgs boson, the missing piece in understanding why particles have mass, had finally been discovered. On the rostrum, surrounded by jostling physicists and media, was the particle's retiring namesake--the only person in history to have an existing single particle named for them."
The Particle at the End of the Universe: How the Hunt for the Higgs Boson Leads Us to the Edge of a New World by Sean Carroll
The Higgs Boson Discovery at the Large Hadron Collider by Roger Wolf
"This book provides a comprehensive overview of the field of Higgs boson physics."
Higgs: The Invention and Discovery of the 'God Particle' by Jim Baggott
"The hunt for the Higgs particle involved the biggest, most expensive experiment ever."
Who Cares about Particle Physics? Making Sense of the Higgs Boson, Large Hadron Collider and CERN by Pauline Gagnon
"CERN, the European Laboratory for particle physics, regularly makes the news. What kind of research happens at this international laboratory and how does it impact people's daily lives? Why is the discovery of the Higgs boson so important? Dive in to discover how international teams of researchers work together to push scientific knowledge forward."