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Leon M. Lederman, Nobel Laureate was the author of the highly acclaimed Quantum Physics for Poets and Symmetry and the Beautiful Universe (both coauthored with Christopher T. Hill), as well as The God Particle (with Dick Teresi). He had served as the editor of Portraits of Great American Scientists and a contributor to Science Literacy for the Twenty-First Century. He was formerly the Resident Scholar at the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy and Pritzker Professor of Science at the Illinois Institute of Technology, and he was director emeritus of Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. Christopher T. Hill, PhD is the coauthor with Leon M. Lederman of 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.
""""These are exciting times for particle physics. With their customary charm and wit, Lederman and Hill take us on a fascinating tour of where we've been and where we're going and, along the way, give the best description of the Higgs boson I've ever seen. A great read.” —James Trefil, Clarence J. Robinson Professor of Physics, George Mason University, coauthor of Dictionary of Cultural LiteracyPraise for the books of Lederman and Hill: “A tour de force of physics made simple….” —Times Literary Supplement “Few books about modern physics are as fascinating, far-ranging, and readable as this.”—NSTA Recommends “Thought-provoking.”—Discover
