I also remember reading somewhere that the guy for whom the Higgs-Boson is partly named, defiantly responded with "nothing" for many years when his university d

I also remember reading somewhere that the guy for whom the Higgs-Boson is partly named, defiantly responded with "nothing" for many years when his university did their annual (or was it quarterly?) roundup asking all the professors to submit their latest published findings. Later, after winning renown for his work on Higgs-Boson he remarked that he would never have succeeded in today's impatient environment.