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Higgs Boson Confirmation

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

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2013

Peter Ware Higgs14 March 2013

Geneva · Science / Physics

Sees CERN report that accumulating measurements increasingly support the new particle having the properties expected of a Higgs boson.

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Peter Ware Higgs

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