WILL he or won't he? That was the question on the mind of anyone with a passing interest in the topic as representatives of Sweden's Royal Academy of Science prepared to announce the winner of this year's Nobel physics prize. Well, he did. Half a century after predicting the existence of the particle which bears his name Peter Higgs, of Edinburgh University, was awarded science's highest accolade. Another, even bigger mystery was who would share the honour--and the cheque for SKr8m ($1.2m). In t...
WILL he or won't he? That was the question on the mind of anyone with a passing interest in the topic as representatives of Sweden's Royal Academy of Science prepared to announce the winner of this year's Nobel physics prize. Well, he did. Half a century after predicting the existence of the particle which bears his name Peter Higgs, of Edinburgh University, was awarded science's highest accolade. Another, even bigger mystery was who would share the honour--and the cheque for SKr8m ($1.2m). In t...
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