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The Higgs boson was first detected in 2012 and he won the Nobel the following year. Saying he waited 50 years for the prize is a bit disingenuous.
by meepmorp 2y ago
The Higgs boson was first detected in 2012 and he won the Nobel the following year. Saying he waited 50 years for the prize is a bit disingenuous.
- kibwen 2y agoIt's not disingenuous, the Higgs mechanism was theorized in the 60s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_for_the_Higgs_boson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_for_the_Higgs_boson
- martopix 2y agoNot the poster, but I don't understand the downvotes: this is exactly right. Higgs was awarded the Nobel after the mechanism he theorized was experimentally confirmed, and that is 100% the reason it took so long.
- meepmorp 2y agoRight! Einstein didn't get the Nobel because the theory of relativity is awesome, he got it after Eddington observed gravitational lensing during an eclipse, confirming a key prediction. Brilliant theorizing can be both brilliant and wrong.
- kragen 2y agoEinstein got the Nobel Prize for his work on quantum physics, not relativity.