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Symmetry Breaking Paper

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

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1964

Peter Ware Higgs1964

Edinburgh · Science / Physics

Publishes a short paper on broken symmetries that identifies a loophole allowing gauge theories to evade the usual massless-particle conclusion.

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Peter Ware Higgs

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