The Higgs, From Theory to Reality

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Click Here to Read: The Higgs, From Theory to Reality  in The New York Times on March 4, 2013.

The long road to find the Higgs boson is littered with subatomic particle discoveries and canceled colliders, but it ends with a discovery and a theory validated nearly 50 years after the idea was born.

Peter Higgs in 2012.Gavin Rodgers/Rex Features, via Associated Press