[1] In addition to his scientific research, he is known for his lectures and writings making science intelligible to a wider audience and promoting physics outreach.
In his book, Lucifer's Legacy: The Meaning of Asymmetry, Close wrote: "Fundamental physical science involves observing how the universe functions and trying to find regularities that can be encoded into laws.
Also discussed are the contributions of John Bahcall, Ray Davis, Bruno Pontecorvo, and others who made a scientific understanding of this fundamental building block of the universe.
In The Infinity Puzzle: Quantum Field Theory and the Hunt for an Orderly Universe (2013), Close focuses on the discovery of the mass mechanism, the so-called Higgs-mechanism.
[7] In his 2019 book, Trinity: The Treachery and Pursuit of the Most Dangerous Spy in History, Close recounts the life and the espionage of Klaus Fuchs who passed atomic secrets to the Soviets during the race for development of the nuclear bomb.