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Particle physics: Inside the Rad Lab

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Jon Butterworth relishes a tome on the research and the personalities that drove a century of smashing physics.

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  1. Jon Butterworth is professor of physics at University College London and writes for The Guardian at go.nature.com/qhea9i. He is the author of Smashing Physics.,

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