SISSA COLLOQUIUM - Friday, 19 October 2012

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SISSA Colloquium


Friday, 19 October 2012

5.00 p.m.

SISSA Main Lecture Hall

Via Bonomea, 265

Trieste

FRANK CLOSE

University of Oxford, UK

FROM ABDUS SALAM TO THE HIGGS BOSON

Frank Close will tell about fifty years of physics history in a public
lecture.He will explain the long path made up of sacrifice,
disappointment and discoveries in search for the Higgs boson, from the
beginning until now.


Everybody is welcome to attend.

Frank Edwin Close is an Oxford physicist and an expert in Physics of
elementary particles, as well as a populariser of science. He has
written several books, such as "The Cosmic Onion", "Neutrino" and "The
Infinity Puzzle", whose issues will be discussed during the lecture.
After obtaining a PhD in Physics at the University of Oxford under the
supervision of Dick Dalitz, Close worked at SLAC (Stanford Linear
Accelerator Center) and CERN for many years and then at the Rutherford
Laboratory, as the head of the Theoretical Physics Sector. At CERN he
was also in charge of communication and since 2001 he has been Professor
at the University of Oxford. Currently he is delving into the life and
works of Bruno Pontecorvo.

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