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Nobel prize: well done Higgs theorists but what about the experimenters?

Posted on 08/10/2013 by Jon Butterworth

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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What’s in a name? An H, an i, two g’s and an s

Posted on 22/04/2013 by Jon Butterworth

At the Guardian. See also Chapter 8.5 of Smashing Physics.

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(Don’t) Respect my Authority

Posted on 13/04/2013 by Jon Butterworth

A venue, a role, an award, can lend authority. But it’s only a loan. At the Guardian.

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Nobel prize in physics: it’s not too soon for a Higgs boson to win it

Posted on 09/10/2012 by Jon Butterworth

At the Guardian.

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