Touschek and Gatto: Exploring a friendship that would shape fundamental physics

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) made its groundbreaking discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012, but its ancestry can be traced back more than 60 years to the first electron-positron collision experiment in Italy. Named Anello di Accumulazione (AdA), the experiment was the world's first collider of matter and antimatter.