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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 1 month 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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

She was 23 when she had the breakthrough?! And in 1951! I can only imagine the barriers on her way to publish her findings.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

party-cat good for her, weren't they the ones breaking cp symmetry?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I think you're right. I only remembered kaon oscillations, but not that they also break CP.