Columbia members Brian Greene and Michael Tuts discuss the discover of the Higgs Boson particle on Charlie Rose. Watch the video here.
See also the review of Dr. Firestein's book in the New York Times Book Review at http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/19/science/ignorance-book-review-scientis...
Modern science is immensely complex, but Professor Virginia Cornish had a simple idea for solving a big problem.