Large Hadron Collider & the 'God Particle': Six creators, one Nobel Prize

National post (3 December)

"If the multi-billion-dollar Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland, the so-called Doomsday Machine, works as predicted by creating the so-called God Particle, thereby showing the world why stuff has mass, then someone will have to get a Nobel Prize for it... the Nobel committee will have to entertain competing arguments about who should get the prize: Gerald Guralnik, Carl (Dick) Hagen, Tom Kibble, Peter Higgs, or Francois Englert. Robert Brout, the last member of this 'Gang of Six,' died earlier this year... In the summer of 1964, Britain endured a series of postal strikes. At Imperial College in London, Messrs. Guralnik, Hagen and Kibble were getting ready to publish their theory about the emergence of mass in a theoretically massless system, when they received in the mail three papers that had been delayed by the backlog: one by Mr. Brout and Mr. Englert, and two by Mr. Higgs. In those papers was the proof that they had been scooped by a matter of a days."

http://news.nationalpost.com/2011/12/03/large-hadron-collider-the-god-particle-six-creators-one-nobel-prize/