Particle Fever (2013)

Directed by

Mark Levinson

Genre

documentary film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 39m

Rated

12

Rating

7.1 of 10 from 247 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary follows physicists at CERN as they start up the Large Hadron Collider. It shows the scientists on both the experimental and theoretical sides as they work to find the Higgs boson. The film covers the years from 2008 to 2012.

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What happens

Particle Fever is a 2013 American documentary film tracking the first round of experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) near Geneva, Switzerland. The film follows the experimental physicists at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) who run the experiments, as well as the theoretical physicists who attempt to provide a conceptual framework for the LHC's results. The film begins in 2008 with the first firing of the LHC and concludes in 2012 with the successful identification of the Higgs boson. The Communication Awards of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine awarded a $20,000 prize for excellence in communicating science to the general public in Film/Radio/TV to David Kaplan and Mark Levinson for "Particle Fever" on October 14, 2015. The awards are given to individuals in four categories: books, film/radio/TV, magazine/newspaper and online, and are supported by the W. M. Keck Foundation. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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