Guido Tonelli Author

Guido Tonelli played a key role in the discovery of the Higgs boson, also known as the 'God Particle', which earned Francois Englert and Peter Higgs the 2013 Nobel Prize in physics. For his contributions to science, Tonelli was awarded the Commendatore of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic in 2012, the Enrico Fermi Prize from the Italian Physics Society, and the Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics. He is a professor of general physics at the University of Pisa and a visiting scientist at CERN. Genesis was a bestseller on release in Italy.