Professor Elisabetta Barberio, from the University of Melbourne, presents the AIP Women in Physics Lecturer for 2013.
The understanding of our universe, from the largest to the smallest, has progressed significantly in recent decades. Large, complex and expensive facilities have been essential in the pursuit of knowledge of the fundamental structure, constituents and forces in nature; and the demand to make observations, measurements and analyses has driven technological advancement.
Specifically, July 4 2012, experiments at the Large Hadron Collider announced the discovery of a new subatomic particle. This breakthrough will be described and discussed in the context of its implications for our quest to understand the origin of mass.
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