God particle
Britishnoun
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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 • Jan. 27, 2026
And so was born “Particle Fever,” a new documentary that follows a handful of scientists at CERN: living and working, partying and studying, in their quest for the so-called God particle.
From New York Times • Feb. 24, 2014
Outside of sport, Professor Peter Higgs, the physicist who gave his name to the "God particle" which scientists believe they discovered this year, becomes a Companion of Honour.
From The Guardian • Dec. 29, 2012
Scientists first predicted the existence of the Higgs boson, nicknamed the "God particle" by some in the popular media, in the 1960s to explain why other particles have mass.
From Scientific American • Dec. 12, 2012
His work in the 1960s proposed the existence of a particle which came to be known as the Higgs boson, the so-called God particle.
From BBC • Feb. 24, 2012
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