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CERN and the Higgs boson hit the headlines and made particle physics exciting for non-scientists - here's the inside story

About the Author

James Gillies is a member of the Strategic Planning and Evaluation unit at CERN. He was Head of the Organization's communications group from 2003 to 2015, and is co-author of How the Web was Born, a history of the Internet published in 2000 and described by the Times as being among the year's ten best books for inquisitive minds.