She helped confirm the last missing piece of the Standard Model, and Harvard history came with it. Meet Melissa Franklin. #PhysicsHistory #WomenInSTEM #HiggsBoson #Trailblazer #DidYouKnow

For a long time, the Higgs boson's mass looked out of reach. Maurizio Biasini helped change that. Born in 1967, he's a physicist and researcher at the University of Perugia, and he co-authored studies that measured the Higgs mass. #physicshistory #MaurizioBiasini #HiggsBoson #CERN #particlephysics

Did you know #HiggsBoson was named after physics laureate Peter Higgs?

Learn more about the 2013 physics prize he shares with François Englert: www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physi...

#CrumbsofHistory for September 10th
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