Synopses & Reviews
Leon M. Lederman,
Nobel Laureate (Batavia, IL)
is the author of
Beyond the God Particle,
Quantum Physics for Poets, and
Symmetry and the Beautiful Universe (coauthored with Christopher T. Hill), as well as
The God Particle (with Dick Teresi). He has served as the editor of
Portraits of Great American Scientists and a contributor to
Science Literacy for the Twenty-First Century. He is formerly the Resident Scholar at the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy and Pritzker Professor of Science at the Illinois Institute of Technology, and he is director emeritus of Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.
Christopher T. Hill, PhD (Batavia, IL) is the coauthor with Leon M. Lederman of Beyond the God Particle, Quantum Physics for Poets, and Symmetry and the Beautiful Universe. He is a theoretical physicist (Scientist III) and the former head of Theoretical Physics at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.
Synopsis
Nobel Laureate Leon M. Lederman explains the elegant concept of symmetry and its profound ramifications to art, music, and life on Earth, from quarks to the universe at large.