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The existence of the Higgs boson was first posited in a trio of papers in 1964. Two of those1,2 were authored solely by UK theoretical physicist Peter Higgs and the other3 was co-authored by his US and Belgian counterparts Robert Brout and François Englert.

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Nature 615, 175-177 (2023)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-00575-3

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