Scientists
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samerscience11 on December 7, 2010
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| Peter Higgs |  (wikipedia.com) Born in England in 1929, A british physicist, he is best known for his 1960s proposal of broken symmetry in electroweak theory, explaining the origin of mass of elementary particles in general and of the W and Z bosons in particular. This is called the Higgs Mechanism |
| Robert Brout | (wikipedia.com) A belgian theoretical physicists in particle physics. In collaboration with Francois Englert, discovered how mass can be generated for gauge particles in the presence of a local abelian and non-abelian gauge symmetry. |
| Francois Englert | (quizlet.com) A Belgian theoretical physicist who worked with Brout and Higgs. He developed theories of the Higgs boson and fields |
| James Clerk Maxwell | (dictionary.reference.com) Scottish physicist who developed four laws of electromagnetism showing that light is composed of electromagnetic waves. |
| Paul Dirac | Open case file of antimatter in 1928, this British physicist developed theory or equation combing quantum mechanics and special relativity to provide more full description of electron interactions. |
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