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Peter Higgs, eponymous predictor of physics's missing boson, faced similar trouble with Physics Letters.
ECONOMIST: An academic journal provides haven for rejected work
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The existence of the Higgs boson was first proposed in the 1960s by Edinburgh University physicist Peter Higgs.
BBC: Higgs boson 'hints' also seen by US lab
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Most notably Peter Higgs, but also Francois Englert and Robert Brout (recently deceased).
FORBES: If I Want To Look Well-Read And In The Flow, What Do I Need To Know About The Higgs Boson Discovery And Announcement?
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The particle is named after British physicist Peter Higgs, one of the theorists who predicted its existence nearly a half-century ago.
WSJ: New Particle Found, Consistent With Higgs Boson
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People have spoken of key contributions being made by Francois Englert, Peter Higgs, Gerald Guralnik, Tom Kibble, Robert Brout and Carl Hagen.
BBC: Science correspondent, BBC News
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Prof Peter Higgs developed a theory of how other sub-atomic particles came to have substance, or mass, and published his work in 1964.
BBC: Science correspondent, BBC News
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The fifth, the Higgs boson (after Peter Higgs, a British physicist who helped to predict it), is what gives other particles their masses.
ECONOMIST: Particle physics makes sense, but it assumes too much
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The elusive particle is part of a theory first proposed by physicist Peter Higgs and others in the 1960s to explain how particles obtain mass.
CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS
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It was predicted in 1964 by Peter Higgs, a British physicist who was trying to fix a niggle in quantum theory, and independently, in various guises, by five other researchers.
ECONOMIST: The Higgs boson
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It is an exclusive club and now also includes Professor Peter Higgs, who predicted a new particle, the Higgs Boson, in the 1960s, and this year the particle was proved to exist.
BBC: Olympic heroes head New Year Honours
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Peter Higgs, we feel your pain.
ENGADGET: US lawsuit calls Large Hadron Collider a Doomsday Machine, Higgs boson shrugs
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Speculation had been rife, in light of the discovery of the Higgs boson announced in July, that Peter Higgs or his colleagues may have been in the running for the prize, but historically the prizes tend to honour discoveries after a period of years.
BBC: Serge Haroche and David Wineland