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The Higgs particle experiment was awarded the Nobel just a year after the discovery.
by samfriedman 9y ago
The Higgs particle experiment was awarded the Nobel just a year after the discovery.
- haihaibye 9y agoThe awards went to the theorists who did the work in the 60s.
- davrosthedalek 9y agoI think the key is that it must be clear that the work had impact on the progress of science. If the Higgs would not have been found, it would have been a costly dead end. With LIGO, the theoretical foundations have been defined decades ago too.