Autor Frank Close

From the award-winning science writer, a new history of the development of nuclear power and the extraordinary minds behind itHenry Becquerel’s accidental discovery, in Paris in 1896, of a faint smudge on a photographic plate sparked a chain of discoveries…

Kniha je působivým průvodcem po fundamentálních částicích, z nichž je stvořen vesmír. Nechává nás nahlédnout do fascinujícího světa aktuálních objevů částicové fyziky a ukazuje, jak tyto objevy mění naše chápání světa. Podíváme se do nitra atomu, seznámíme…

The story of the Higgs boson - the so-called 'God particle' - and the man who thought of itIn the summer of 1964, a reclusive young professor at the University of Edinburgh wrote two scientific papers which have come to change our understanding of the…

'Everything about this story is astounding' Bryan Appleyard, Sunday Times"Trinity" was the codename for the test explosion of the atomic bomb in New Mexico on 16 July 1945. Trinity is now also the extraordinary story of the bomb's metaphorical…

In the summer of 1964, a reclusive young professor at the University of Edinburgh wrote two scientific papers which have come to change our understanding of the most fundamental building blocks of matter and the nature of the universe. Peter Higgs posited…