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Old 09-10-2013, 08:32 AM
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Higgs & Englebert Nobel Prize

http://www.nobelprize.org/

A fine day for particle physics. Congratulations to the winners.

A tough call for the committee, given that it's generally agreed that 6 people came up with the Higgs mechanism more or less simultaneously, while the prize can only be shared three ways. (Brout, Englebert's co-author is dead and thus ineligible, so I guess he has moral rights.)

On the down-side, every lazy science journalist in the world will now be using that idiotic phrase to describe the Higgs boson.
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