The Atom Smashers, a documentary about physicists at the Tevatron searching for the Higgs boson, has won the Audacity Award in the Pariscience festival. This award is “for a film that shows originality in its subject matter or treatment.”
Congratulations to Clayton and Monica. You can find my review of this excellent film here.
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The Atom Smashers: Deservingly audacious
Posted in Science and Culture, tagged Movies, Particle Physics, Tevatron, The Atom Smashers on October 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Atom Smashers
Posted in Science and Culture, tagged Higgs, LHC, Movies, Tevatron on September 23, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Recently I attended the opening of The Atom Smashers, a documentary by Clayton Brown and Monica Long Ross from 137 Films. It was held, appropriately, at the Museum of Science and Industry. Unfortunately, this had the effect of providing us with what is probably the smallest screen in the city of Chicago. That can easily [...]
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