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Yoichiro Nambu, the silent revolutionary of particle physics, is dead

Posted on July 19, 2015 by

The Wire July 18, 2015 Particle physics is an obscure subject for most people but everyone sat up and took notice when the Large Hadron Collider discovered the particle named after Peter Higgs in 2012. The Higgs boson propelled his name to the … Continue reading →

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