Unfinished Nature: Particle Physics at Cern - Paperbackby Arpita Roy (Author) The discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012, the culmination of a decades long search, is one of the singular triumphs of particle physics. Advanced experiments at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN (the Conseil Europen pour la Recherche Nuclaire) near Geneva detected the long hypothesized particle, resulting in the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics. Drawing on two and a half years of in depth fieldwork spent among CERN's research