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- proper noun A patronymic
surname . - noun Short form of
Higgs boson .
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Examples
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But I do have to confess some interest in the pursuit of what's popularly called the God particle, much to the dismay of particle physicists who prefer the term Higgs boson.
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The discovery of the Higgs is bad for particle physics because then the standard model would be complete, and there would be nothing else.
LHC Fever! (And more bad science journalism) « Imaginary Potential 2008
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The discovery of the Higgs is bad for particle physics because then the standard model would be complete, and there would be nothing else.
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Speaking of Higgs bosons, I just remember the first time I ever heard the name Higgs was while watching the American remake of Solaris.
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~ Why the rumored discovery of the Higgs boson is bad news for particle physics -- Some call the Higgs boson the Holy Grail of particle physics.
Speedlinking 6/4/07 William Harryman 2007
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It was this question that led me to discover the magnetic monopole solutions in Higgs theories, the large N behaviour for theories with N colours (instead of 3, the physical number), and later the very important effects due to instantons.
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But many physicists expressed their satisfaction with the simple term "Higgs boson," after Peter Higgs, the leader of the group that first theorized the particle in 1964.
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The elusive particle, which has been called the "Higgs boson" after British physicist Peter Higgs, 82, a particle-physics theorist who first showed in 1964 that it must exist, is thought to be the mysterious factor that gives everything mass.
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But many physicists expressed their satisfaction with the simple term "Higgs boson," after Peter Higgs, the leader of the group that first theorized the particle in 1964.
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In the days that followed Professor Higgs wrote a short mathematical proof of his theory, describing what would become known as the Higgs boson particle.
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