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Author Archives: Jon Butterworth
Nobel Prizes and Science: Theory, experiment, chicken, egg
At the Guardian.
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Nobel prize: well done Higgs theorists but what about the experimenters?
Full credit to Higgs and Englert for Cern Large Hadron Collider discovery, but the Nobel falsely promotes view of ‘lone genius’ At the Guardian. See also Chapter 9.3 of Smashing Physics.
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Covariance: the underground life of neutrinos
At the Guardian.
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The Higgs Boson: A Discovery
An article on the Higgs discovery in the New Scientist. I also wrote their 35th “Instant Expert” on the Higgs, around the same time. This was later adapted by them to be part of their book “Why the Universe Exists“.
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