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particle physics

Higgs Boson theory earns Nobel for Physics

Expert Reactions, In the News  |  Published: 09 October 201328 March 2016

The Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to the theorists who predicted the Higgs Boson particle 50 years before […]

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Nobel Prize for Physics – experts respond

Expert Reactions  |  Published: 10 October 201210 October 2012

The 2012 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to Serge Haroche and David J. Winelan. The Laureates independently invented […]

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Russell Brown on the Higgs

Reflections on Science  |  Published: 06 July 201206 July 2012

Media commentator Russell Brown reflects on the CERN Higgs announcement on his Hard News blog on the Public Address network. […]

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Experts on speeding neutrino experiment results

Expert Reactions  |  Published: 24 February 2012

From the UK SMC: Prof Jim Al-Khalili, Professor of Physics at the University of Surrey who promised to eat his […]

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CERN results hint at Higgs Boson – experts respond

Expert Reactions  |  Published: 14 December 201114 December 2011

In a seminar held at CERN today, physicists presented the latest results of their searches for the Standard Model Higgs […]

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The Higgs Boson – background information

Expert Reactions  |  Published: 14 December 201114 December 2011

Our colleagues at the Canadian Science Media Centre have kindly put together the following backgrounder on the Higgs Boson. What […]

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Speed camera needed for neutrinos?

Expert Reactions, In the News  |  Published: 23 September 201126 September 2011

Physicists have said – in a paper and in a seminar at the European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN) – […]

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