Thursday, July 5, 2012

Theorist Peter Higgs lives to see his boson

Theorist Peter Higgs lives to see his boson:
Flanked by TV cameras, British physicist Peter Higgs arrives at the CERN particle-physics center near Geneva to hear about the discovery of a new subatomic particle that matches a prediction he made more than 40 years earlier.Peter Higgs was no good in the lab, but he never doubted that one day his theory of a powerful subatomic particle that bears his name would be proven right in practice. His surprise was that he lived to see that day.





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