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Should the Higgs boson be renamed?

APR 24, 2013
Physics Today
BBC : Speculation surrounding this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics has rekindled the debate concerning the naming of the Higgs boson. Because key contributions were made by at least six peopleâmdash; Robert Brout (who died in 2011), François Englert, Gerald Guralnik, Carl Hagen, Peter Higgs, and Tom Kibbleâmdash;many in the community object to the particle’s being named for just one of them. Yet naming it after all six would be unwieldy. Because the Higgs theory may be the focus of this year’s Nobel, and a maximum of three individuals can share the prize, the controversy over what to call the new particle is heating up.
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