How the boson got Higgs's name

Frank Close
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Frank Close: Frank Close is professor of theoretical physics at the University of Oxford, UK. His forthcoming book on the Higgs boson story, The Infinity Puzzle, will be published next year. f.close1@physics.ox.ac.uk

Nature, 2010, vol. 465, issue 7300, 873-874

Abstract: 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.

Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1038/465873a

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