Ian Sample's excellent summary of the almost 50 years' research that led to this week's announcement by Cern of the discovery of a new particle, which looked and smelled like the long-awaited Higgs boson, was careful to attempt to give credit to all those who predicted the new particle in the 1960s (Report, 5 July). But even though he mentioned the "gang of six": Higgs, Kibble, Brout, Englert, Guralnik and Hagen, there were others. Phil Anderson first discussed the generation of mass for photons and similar "gauge" particles in 1962, but he has already won a Nobel prize. Not so well known was the work of two Soviet physicists, Sasha Migdal and Sasha Polyakov, carried out totally...
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