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Physicist, 98, honoured with doctorate 75 years after groundbreaking discovery (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

Fowler’s discovery helped lead to a revolution in the theory of particle physics, and it continues to be proven correct – predicting particles such as the Higgs boson, discovered at Cern in Geneva, Switzerland.

Still very relevant. Higgs is even in public consciousness to some degree. I mean, I know the name (and nothing else about it) and I’m only a curious person who reads stuff online. Awesome that they honored her.