Peter Higgs, a theorist who envisioned the particle as a young man in 1964, teared up as he attended the discovery announcement in Geneva.
“It’s really an incredible thing that it’s happened in my lifetime,” Higgs, 83, said when he took the microphone before a packed auditorium at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, which operates the Higgs-hunting Large Hadron Collider.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/scientists-discover-new-subatomic-particle-at-the-center-of-everything/2012/07/04/gJQADi8nMW_story.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/05/science/cern-physicists-may-have-discovered-higgs-boson-particle.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha2_20120705
“It’s really an incredible thing that it’s happened in my lifetime,” Higgs, 83, said when he took the microphone before a packed auditorium at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, which operates the Higgs-hunting Large Hadron Collider.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/scientists-discover-new-subatomic-particle-at-the-center-of-everything/2012/07/04/gJQADi8nMW_story.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/05/science/cern-physicists-may-have-discovered-higgs-boson-particle.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha2_20120705
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