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How Peter Higgs changed our understanding of the nature of the universe

April 11, 2024 7:18 am

His discovery continues to influence critical research into areas such as Dark Matter and the unification of forces

Physicist Peter Higgs passes away: What is the 'God particle', which he theorised in 1960s?

April 11, 2024 11:21 am

The 'God particle' or Higgs boson is the particle that is supposed to account for the mass of every other fundamental particle. What does that mean? Here is a look.

Nobel laureate Peter Higgs, who proposed existence of 'god particle', dies at 94

April 10, 2024 7:48 am

Peter Higgs’ theory related to how subatomic particles that are the building blocks of matter get their mass.

The tao of modern physics

November 15, 2013 12:39 am

Philip Anderson's role in the Higgs particle discovery has been overlooked,but it points to the intellectual unity of the discipline.

Discovery of Higgs boson made physics boring: Stephen Hawking

November 13, 2013 5:09 pm

Stephen Hawking believes,'Physics would be far more interesting if it had not been found.'

Jury member says Nobel physics decision 'wrong'

October 09, 2013 3:42 pm

Many had expected the CERN lab to share the Nobel Prize for Physics.

Higgs-Englert win Physics Nobel

October 09, 2013 1:27 am

The existence of the Higgs boson is needed to explain how particles acquire mass.

God particle-Higgs&Bose in Higgs Boson

July 05, 2012 10:08 am

Satyendra Nath Bose and Peter Higgs contributed towards the naming of the particle.

Huddled maths

August 06, 2009 3:42 am

Paul Lauterbur,the father of magnetic-resonance imaging,had his seminal paper rejected when he first submitted it to Nature.

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