Five years ago, on 4th of July 2012, scientists at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research in Switzerland, announced the discovery of the Higgs boson, the elusive particle whose discovery had been expected by generations of particle physicists for almost half a century. Continue reading "Happy 5th anniversary, Higgs boson!"
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Peter Higgs and the Higgs Boson
Peter Ware Higgs, the physicist born on 29th of May 1929 in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, to whom the Higgs boson owes its name, published the papers in 1964 which resulted in a 50 year long search for this elusive particle.
The Higgs boson was finally discovered with the world’s largest and most powerful particle collider, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the European Organization for Nuclear Research CERN.