“The God particle” will probably be the go-to phrase to describe the Higgs boson for decades. Lederman coined the phrase, which he called an “exercise in literary license” and which served as the ...

The world of particle physics has lost one of its heroes. Leon Lederman, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist and popular science educator died on Wednesday. He was 96. Along with his work on subatomic ...

Leon Lederman, whose ingenious experiments with particle accelerators deepened science’s understanding of the subatomic world, died early Wednesday in Rexburg, Idaho. He was 96. Leon Lederman, whose ...

"We don't call it the 'God particle', it's just the media that do that," a senior U.S. scientist politely told an interviewer on a major European radio station on Tuesday. Subscribe to read this story ...

As the finding are announced, physicists shed tears reflecting on the decades of work that brought them to the momentous occasion Scientists at the world's biggest atom smasher hailed the discovery of ...

It was misleading of The Times to entitle an article on the Higgs particle God Particle Found (July 5). Nowhere in the article do the words “God” or “God particle” occur. All the article deals with is ...

GENEVA - Physicists say they have all but proven that the "God particle" exists. They have a footprint and a shadow, and the only thing left is to see for themselves the elusive subatomic particle ...