Frank Close enjoys a journalistic account of the sociology and politics of the search for the elusive particle named after physicist Peter Higgs, but cautions that the idea has deeper roots than its name implies.
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Close, F. How the boson got Higgs's name. Nature 465, 873–874 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/465873a
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