Frank Close
Geboren: July 24, 1945 – Peterborough, England, United Kingdom
Frank Close is a British particle physicist and science writer whose work explains quantum physics, cosmology, and the history of modern physics for general readers. His notable books include The Infinity Puzzle, Antimatter, Neutrino, and Elusive. An Oxford physicist, he is widely recognized for science communication, including the Royal Society’s Michael Faraday Prize.
Biografie & Werdegang des Autors
Educated in Peterborough before reading physics at St Andrews and beginning doctoral work at Oxford in 1967, Frank Close entered science at a moment when quarks were still controversial. He later recalled that a school chemistry lesson on atoms first gave him the sense that physics underlay everything. At Oxford, working under Richard Dalitz, he joined one of the few groups taking quarks seriously, and the first experimental evidence soon turned that speculative subject into one of the defining advances of modern particle physics. Postdoctoral work at Stanford then placed him close to the center of that excitement. ((https://physicstoday.aip.org/news/q-a-frank-close-probes-quarks-and-popularizes-science))
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"One of Britain's foremost popularisers of science, Frank Close nonetheless claims no great ambition for his writing"
— The Guardian ((
"Frank Close is probably the perfect person to tell the tale of Higgs and his boson"
— Times (UK) ((
"Frank Close shows us how the initial dreams of beneficial atomic energy were transmuted, with frightening speed, into nightmares"
— Matt Strassler ((
"Frank Close’s ensemble drama is a powerful corrective to the myth of the solitary genius"
— Spectator ((
"A five star book - it reaches parts other books on the Higgs have failed to reach and Frank Close does a brilliant job"
— Popular Science ((
"With verve, insight, and rigor, Frank Close beautifully illuminates the life and times of one of physics’ great, unheralded giants"
— Jimmy Soni ((
"Higgs’s friend and colleague Frank Close offers a sympathetic biography of the “shy, modest” man and famous particle"
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"In Destroyer of Worlds, accomplished author Frank Close has written a genuine page-turner"
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