Prof Peter Higgs developed a theory of how other sub-atomic particles came to have substance, or mass, and published his work in 1964.

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Hans Blix, the chief of the UN inspectors, and Mohamed ElBaradei, who heads the International Atomic Energy Agency, expect their teams to start searching for any evidence of weapons of mass destruction on November 27th.

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