How Peter Higgs proposed the Higgs boson with Frank Close
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On 4 July 2012, one of the longest-running mysteries in physics was finally clarified. The ATLAS and CMS collaborations at CERN\\u2019s Large Hadron Collider announced that they had produced and observed the elusive Higgs boson. This unstable elementary particle was theorised back in 1964 by 6 scientists \\u2013 one of them was the particle\\u2019s namesake, Peter Higgs.
\\nIn this episode, physicist and former Ri Christmas Lecturer, Frank Close, explores the life of Peter Higgs, a Nobel prize-winning scientist and the only person in history to have an existing single particle named after them.
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- Watch Frank Close\'s CHRISTMAS LECTURES: rigb.org/explore-science/explore/video/cosmic-onion-atoms-1993 \\n
This talk was recorded from our theatre at the Royal Institution on 7 July 2022.
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Produced by: Sarah Dick
\\nMusic by: Joseph Sandy
\\nThumbnail image credit: Garik Barseghyan via Pixabay
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