Peter Higgs

Peter Higgs is a British theoretical physicist and Nobel Prize laureate “for the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles”. CERN announced on 4 July 2012 that they had experimentally established the existence the Higgs boson. 

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Higgs10: Three-quarters of the way there

The direct discovery of the W and Z bosons at the SppS in 1983 provided solid experimental support for the existence of the Higgs boson

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25 May, 2022

Higgs10: Three-quarters of the way there

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25 May, 2022

Higgs10: A boson is born

The Higgs boson holds the record (48 years) among elementary particles for the time between prediction and discovery, going from an esoteric technicality to commanding the global spotlight at the world’s most powerful collider

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28 April, 2022

Higgs10: A boson is born

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28 April, 2022

Higgs collection images gallery

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CERN and the rise of the Standard Model

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Interview with Peter Higgs about the Higgs boson discovery

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Interview with Peter Higgs about the Higgs ...

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Video News Release A-Roll July 2012

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Video News Release A-Roll July 2012

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CERN news, 4 July 2012 new boson spotted at the LHC: is it the Higgs?

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CERN news, 4 July 2012 new boson spotted at...

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Le CERN et l'avènement du Modèle Standard

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Le CERN et l'avènement du Modèle Standard ...

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CERN news, 4th July 2012 New boson spotted at the LHC: is it the Higgs?

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CERN news, 4th July 2012 New boson spotted ...

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