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CERN and the Higgs Boson: The Global Quest for the Building Blocks of Reality
Written by James Gillies
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Weaving together the scientific and political stories of CERN's development, this book reveals how particle physics has evolved to become a global field of human endeavor.
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James Gillies
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.
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