Now that it seems the Higgs boson has probably been discovered, other researchers than Peter Higgs would seem entitled to justice. There were, in all, five other researchers who had the idea, and members of the physicists’ community are asking that the thing be properly named the Brout-Englert-Higgs-Guralnik-Hagen-Kibble particle.
Published on November 20, 2012 21:30