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The seven months that changed physics: The discovery of the Higgs Boson and its implications for High Energy Physics1
By Guido Tonelli
“Researchers of the ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN, have announced the discovery of a new particle whose characteristics seem to be consistent with the ones expected for the long sought Higgs boson. Are we there at last? And what could be the implications of this historical discovery?…”
The adventure of quasicrystals: a sucessful multidisciplinary effort2
By D. Gratias
“The 2011 Nobel Prize for chemistry was awarded to Daniel Shechtman from the Technion Haifa (Israel) for his discovery of quasicrystals in 1982. At the time, he was visiting the National Bureau of Standards (now NIST, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA). While performing an electron microscopy study of rapidly solidified aluminium alloys, he observed precipitates with beautifully resolved sharp diffraction spots with 5-fold symmetry as shown on fig 1 (a). His surprise was such that he initially refused to publish this unbelievable result…”
- Tonellli, Guido. (2012-10-10) The seven months that changed physics: The discovery of the Higgs Boson and its implications for High Energy Physics. Europhysics News, 43(5), 20-25. DOI: 10.1051/epn/201250. [↩]
- Gratias, D. (2012-10-10) The adventure of quasicrystals: a sucessful multidisciplinary effort. Europhysics News, 43(5), 26-29. DOI: 10.1051/epn/2012502. [↩]
