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Culture, history and society

Tracks of my tears: the true meaning of Peter Higgs’ emotion at CERN in 2012

04 Jul 2022 Robert P Crease
Taken from the July 2022 issue of Physics World, where it appeared under the headline "Tracks of my tears".

Physics is often viewed as a dispassionate and purely objective activity. So how, wonders Robert P Crease, do we explain the reaction of Peter Higgs when the boson that bears his name was discovered?

Crying eyes Peter Higgs on 4 July 2012. (Courtesy: CERN) Nobody who has seen the images will forget

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Robert P Crease is a professor in the Department of Philosophy, Stony Brook University, US and writes the monthly Critical Point column for Physics World, robertpcrease.com, e-mail robert.crease@stonybrook.edu. His latest book is The Leak: Politics, Activists, and Loss of Trust at Brookhaven National Laboratory
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