Please come and join us for our annual Higgs Lecture, with guest speaker Frank Close.
Location: Alder Lecture Theatre, The Nucleus Building, The King's Buildings Campus, Thomas Bayes Road, Edinburgh, EH9 3FG
Frank Close is emeritus professor of theoretical physics at Oxford University, and author of 22 popular books on the history and understanding of modern physics. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society -of London :) - and won its Michael Faraday Prize for excellence in science communication in 2013.
Abstract: On July 4 2012, a fifty-year-old search ended: the elusive Higgs boson, the missing piece of the Standard Model of particle physics, and key to understanding why the universe is filled with atoms and molecules, and why the sun has burned long enough for life to have emerged, was found. Edinburgh University’s Peter Higgs, the particle’s namesake, became a virtual shoe-in for a Nobel Prize. And yet, when his name was announced sixteen months later, Higgs proved as elusive as the boson itself. Having hidden out in a seafood bar in Leith, he learned of the award from a passer-by in the street. In this popular talk, based on his biography “Elusive” of Higgs and the boson, Frank Close traces the pivotal role of Higgs's idea in the evolution of our understanding of the material universe.
Copies of Elusive will hopefully be available for purchase and/or signing
There will be a small drinks reception after the lecture at 7pm, on the ground floor of the Nucleus.
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