The God Particle

[Joel S. Berson]

At 4/2/2012 02:52 PM, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC wrote:
>The media did certainly latch on to this nickname, but did not "dub" the
>particle with it.  It comes from Leon Lederman's 1993 book _The God
>Particle: If the Universe Is the Answer, What Is the Question?_.
>
>Here is an earlier cite from the media, but credit still obviously goes
>to Lederman.
>
>_Dallas Morning News_ 26 Oct 1992 p 1C [Newsbank]
>" One is The God Particle by Leon Lederman, an American scientist who
>won the Nobel Prize for physics in 1988. Houghton Mifflin of the United
>States and Bantam Press of England are banking on this book about the
>atom becoming another Brief History of Time. It will be published in the
>United States next spring. "

Ah, Leon Lederman.  Who, the morning Polykarp Kusch of Columbia won
the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1955 (shared), informed the
introductory physics class there of that fact and said he expected to
win one too.  He had a long wait, however.

Joel

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