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Dec. 31, 2010
Amir Aczel Looks At The LHC
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| In his new book, Present at the Creation, Amir D. Aczel tells the story of the European Organization for Nuclear Research's (CERN) Large Hadron Collider. With the multi-billion euro collider, researchers hope to recreate the conditions that existed just after the big bang. |
Produced by Annette Heist, Senior Producer
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Amir Aczel
Author, "Present at the Creation: The Story of CERN and the Large Hadron Collider," (Crown Publishers, 2010)
Author, "The Jesuit and the Skull: Teilhard de Chardin, Evolution, and
the Search for Peking Man" (2007, Riverhead Books)
Fellow, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
Boston, Massachusetts
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