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Experimental Confirmation

Belgium · Science / Physics. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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Robert Brout4 July 2012

Geneva · Science / Physics

Receives posthumous scientific vindication when ATLAS and CMS announce a new particle consistent with the boson implied by the Brout-Englert-Higgs mechanism.

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Robert Brout

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