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Author Sheehy, Suzie, author.

Title The matter of everything : how curiosity, physics, and improbable experiments changed the world / Suzie Sheehy.

Publisher New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2023.
©2022

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Physical Description v, 313 pages ; 25 cm.
Note "This is a Borzoi Book published by Alfred A. Knopf."
"Originally published in hardcover in Great Britain by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, London, in 2022."--Title page verso.
Summary "An accelerator physicist's fascinating journey through the experiments that uncovered the nature of matter and made the modern world. Towards the end of the nineteenth century, many scientists believed that the project of physics was nearly complete, that there was little left to explore. But as the new century dawned, scientists with the drive to deepen their understanding began looking ever more closely at the atom, and as a result of their remarkable discoveries, physics-and the world around us-would never again be the same."-- Provided by publisher.
Contents Introduction -- Dismantling classical physics -- Cathode ray tube: X-rays and the electron -- The gold foil experiment: The structure of the atom -- The Photoelectric Effect: The light quantum -- Matter beyond atoms -- Cloud chambers: Cosmic rays and a shower of new particles -- The first particle accelerators: Splitting the atom -- Cyclotron: Artificial production of radioactivity -- Synchrotron radiation: An unexpected light emerges -- The standard model and beyond -- Particle physics goes large: The strange resonances -- Mega-detectors: Finding the elusive Neutrino -- Linear accelerators: The discovery of quarks -- The Tevatron: A third generation of matter -- The large Hadron collider: The Higgs Boson and beyond -- Future experiments -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- Index.
Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-301) and index.
Subject Particles (Nuclear physics) -- History -- 20th century -- Popular works.
Physics -- Experiments -- History -- 20th century -- Popular works.
Particle accelerators -- History -- 20th century -- Popular works.