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I was already, I think, at the age of 18, showing signs of being incompetent in the lab.

That name was a kind of joke, and not a very good one. An author, Leon Lederman, wanted to call it '...

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Born: 1929-05-29

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Peter Ware Higgs FRS FRSE (29 May 1929 – 8 April 2024) was a British theoretical physicist and an emeritus professor at the University of Edinburgh.|He is best known for his 1960s proposal of broken symmetry in electroweak theory, explaining the origin of mass of elementary particles in general and of the W and Z bosons in particular. This so-called Higgs mechanism, which had several inventors besides Higgs, predicts the existence of a new particle, the Higgs boson (often described as "the most sought-after particle in modern physics").More

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