Steven Weinberg20 November 1967
Uses spontaneous symmetry breaking in A Model of Leptons to construct a unified electroweak theory incorporating a Higgs-type scalar field.
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Uses spontaneous symmetry breaking in A Model of Leptons to construct a unified electroweak theory incorporating a Higgs-type scalar field.
Sees neutral-current observations strengthen the electroweak theory that he had formulated using spontaneous symmetry breaking.
Shares the Nobel Prize in Physics for the electroweak theory, which incorporates the symmetry-breaking mechanism later tested through Higgs-boson measurements.
Presents the CMS collaboration's independent evidence for a new particle near 125 GeV during CERN's announcement of the discovery.
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