Author: Frank Close

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Following the discovery of the Higgs boson, Frank Close has produced this major revision to...

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 th...

Have you ever seen a total solar eclipse? If the question caused you to search your memory, the correct answer would have been no. A common respons...

Nuclear physics began long before the identification of fundamental particles, with J. J. Thomson's discovery of the electron at the end of the 19t...

What are neutrinos? Why does nature need them? What use are they? Neutrinos are perhaps the most enigmatic particles in the universe. Formed in ce...

The memo landed on Kim Philby's desk in Washington, DC, in July 1950. Three months later, Bruno Pontecorvo, a physicist at Harwell, Britain's atomi...

Antimatter explores a strange mirror world, where particles have identical yet opposite properties to those that make up the familiar matter we enc...

Frank Close, a leading physicist and talented popular science writer, reveals the true story of the cold fusion controversy--a story ignored until ...

The bestselling 30-Second... series takes a revolutionary approach to learning about those subjects you feel you should really understand.Each titl...

The bestselling 30-Second... series takes a revolutionary approach to learning about those subjects you feel you should really understand.Each titl...