'God Particle' Scientist Vindicated 50 Years Later
Posted: July 4, 2012
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TweetPeter Higgs is the name — and man — behind the Higgs boson. He and his team proposed the particle's existence back in the 1960s. Robert Siegel talks to Victoria Martin, a lecturer in physics and astronomy at the University of Edinburgh and a former student of Higgs, for more.
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