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Shy physicist whose name lives on in Higgs boson

British physicist Peter Higgs as physicists said Wednesday they had found a new sub-atomic particle consistent with the elusive Higgs boson which is believed to confer mass, via AFP

Forty-eight years ago, British scientist Peter Higgs had a eureka moment when he realised there could be a particle that confers mass, one of the greatest puzzles in physics. “He said: ‘Oh shit, I know how to do that!’” former colleague Alan Walker told AFP of the breakthrough as recounted…

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