The history of particle physics has witnessed many experiments that could illustrate the role of statistics, but few can boast a discovery of such scientific impact and dimensions as the Higgs boson, resulting from a colossal collective and technological endeavour.

Mikkel Ostergaard/ESOF2014 Pages and pages have been written about the Higgs boson in the media, even before the official announcement of its discovery on 4 July 2012. Two years later, CERN continues discovering new properties of this particle, as

Frank Wilczek (New York, 1951) is a rather unconventional individual. To begin with, his outfit does not fit –a hat and tie together with trainers– and this impression is proven true during the conversation, during which, for instance, he refers to «funny electrons» and takes

To invent: find, discover, by dint of study or wit, something new or previously unknown. For my generation, the word inventor calls to mind bygone days, conjuring up images of great men of science like Gutenberg, Galileo, Newton, Niepce, Graham Bell or Edison busy with

On the 4th of July 2012, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) announced the discovery of a new particle at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), which is immensely important to our understanding of the structure of matter. Confirmation of the existence of the Higgs

© 2008 CERN Peter Higgs visiting the ATLAS experiment at CERN in 2008. The experiments carried out in 2012 in the Swiss centre have finally discovered the particle postulated by Higgs in 1964.. On the last 4th