The Finespun Imperfection that Gives Rise to Everything

Guido Tonelli is one of the most authoritative modern experimental physicists, a professor at the University of Pisa, a member of the European Organization for Nuclear Research, and the author of numerous articles and several popular science books. In "The Finespun Imperfection that Gives Rise to Everything," he tells about the discovery of one of the most enigmatic elementary particles—the Higgs boson. Tonelli was a direct participant in the events described; he worked at the Large Hadron Collider and was the official representative of the experiment searching for the Higgs boson. Therefore, his account of how the most important discovery in elementary particle physics in recent decades was made is very vivid and personal.