360What happened in 2012?
5 moments from 2012 on 360n60, each told in 60 words or fewer.
- History · 4 July 2012
CERN announces the discovery of the Higgs boson
On 4 July 2012, scientists at CERN, near Geneva, announced that two experiments at the Large Hadron Collider had found a new particle matching the Higgs boson. Predicted in 1964, the particle helps explain why other basic particles have mass. Peter Higgs and François Englert shared the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics.
- On this day · 4 July 2012
Scientists announce the discovery of the Higgs boson
On 4 July 2012, scientists at CERN near Geneva announced that the Large Hadron Collider had found a new particle matching the Higgs boson, predicted in 1964. It helps explain why basic particles have mass. Peter Higgs and François Englert won the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics.
- 2012 · from The 2010s: Vision 2030 and a changing Kingdom
Higgs boson discovered
- 2012 · from NASA launches the two Voyager spacecraft
Voyager 1 enters interstellar space
- 2012 · from The first Encyclopaedia Britannica begins to appear
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