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| Directed by | Mark Levinson |
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| Narrated by | David Kaplan |
| Cinematography | Claudia Raschke-Robinson |
| Edited by | Walter Murch |
| Music by | Robert Miller |
Production company | Anthos Media |
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Running time | 99 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $1.4 million[1] |
| Box office | $869,838[2] |
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.[3]
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.[4]
- ^ Dance, Scott (March 19, 2014). "Documentary follows 'Particle Fever' surrounding Higgs boson discovery". The Baltimore Sun. Trif Alatzas. Retrieved October 11, 2016.
- ^ "Particle Fever (2014)". Box Office Mojo. Internet Movie Database. Retrieved October 11, 2016.
- ^ Perlman, David (March 9, 2014). "'Particle Fever' an intimate look at a weighty experiment". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved October 11, 2016.
- ^ NAS-Webcast. "2015 Communication Awards Ceremony". Livestream.com. Retrieved October 11, 2016.