God particle
Britishnoun
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Mostly famously, it proved the existence of the Higgs boson -- known as the "God particle" -- in 2012.
From Barron's
Dubbed "the God particle", its discovery in 2012 broadened science's understanding of how particles acquire mass and earned physicists Peter Higgs and Francois Englert the 2013 Nobel Prize for Physics.
From Barron's
The boson had been nicknamed the 'God particle' by the media, after a book by Nobel laureate Leon Lederman.
From BBC
Prof Peter Higgs was best known for that mysterious-sounding thing nicknamed the 'God particle' - or just simply, and probably better-put, the Higgs boson.
From BBC
The Higgs boson, also known as “the God particle,” would become the keystone of a suite of theories known as the Standard Model, which encapsulated all human knowledge so far about elementary particles and the forces by which they shaped nature and the universe.
From New York Times
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