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Higgs Boson

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

2Records
1983–2012Date range
2Named people
1Places

Chronological records

1983

Carlo Rubbia1983

Geneva · Science / Physics

Leads the UA1 collaboration as CERN experiments discover the W and Z bosons whose masses are explained within electroweak theory by the Higgs mechanism.

2012

Fabiola Gianotti4 July 2012

Geneva · Science / Physics

Presents the ATLAS collaboration's evidence for a new particle near 125 GeV at CERN during the Higgs discovery seminar.

Names involved

Carlo RubbiaFabiola Gianotti

Provenance

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