Amir D. Aczel
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Amir D. Aczel

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Amir D. Aczel, Ph.D., is the author of 17 books on mathematics and science, some of which have been international bestsellers. Aczel has taught mathematics, statistics, and history of science at various universities, and was a visiting scholar at Harvard in 2005-2007. In 2004, Aczel was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. He is also the recipient of several teaching awards, and a grant from the American Institute of Physics to support the writing of two of his books. Aczel is currently a research fellow in the history of science at Boston University. The photo shows Amir D. Aczel inside the CMS detector of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, the international laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland, while there to research his new book, "Present at the Creation: The Story of CERN and the Large Hadron Collider"--which is about the search for the mysterious Higgs boson, the so-called "God particle," dark matter, dark energy, the mystery of antimatter, Supersymmetry, and hidden dimensions of spacetime. See Amir D. Aczel's webpage: http://amirdaczel.com Video on CERN and the Large Hadron Collider: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ncx8TE2JMo
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    • The Greatest Mystery in Physics
    • By: Amir D. Aczel
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    • Length: 6 hrs and 16 mins
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    • A Mathemetician's Odyssey to Uncover the Origins of Numbers
    • By: Amir D. Aczel
    • Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
    • Length: 5 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 01-06-15
    • Language: English
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    • The Scientific Rivalry that Created the Nuclear Age
    • By: Amir D. Aczel
    • Narrated by: Eric Conger
    • Length: 7 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 09-01-09
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