What’s the Higgs boson?
Britain’s science minister, William Waldegrave, was wondering last spring how to explain why British taxpayers should support the search for this hypothetical subatomic particle when he hit upon an idea: a contest for the best one-page explanation of it.
This month, Mr. Waldegrave announced the winners of the contest at Keele University, each of whom received a bottle of champagne for his or her efforts. They included the chairman of the department of physics at Southern Methodist University, Vigdor L. Teplitz; Doris Rosenbaum Teplitz, a scholar-in-residence at SMU who is married to Mr. Teplitz; and Ian and Mary Butterworth, scientists at Imperial College in Britain.
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