‘Particle Fever’ Captures the Excitement of the Higgs Discovery
23:51 minutes
Physicists David Kaplan and Mark Levinson knew that when the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva, Switzerland finally turned on, it would change physics—so they set out to capture the historic moment on film. Their documentary, Particle Fever, is a behind-the-scenes look at the scientific process with a big emotional payoff: the discovery of the elusive Higgs boson.
Watch the Particle Fever trailer below.
Segment Guests
David E. Kaplan
David E. Kaplan is producer of Particle Fever (2013) and a physics professor at John Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland.
Mark Levinson
Mark Levinson is director of Particle Fever (2013) in New York, New York.
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About Annie Minoff
@annieminoffAnnie Minoff is a producer for The Journal from Gimlet Media and the Wall Street Journal, and a former co-host and producer of Undiscovered. She also plays the banjo.