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Physicist, 98, honoured with doctorate 75 years after groundbreaking discovery

https://www.theguardian.com/science/article/2024/jul/22/physicist-rosemary-fowler-honoured-doctorate-75-years-after-discovery
acockworkorange - 1.4yr

She was 23 when she had the breakthrough?! And in 1951! I can only imagine the barriers on her way to publish her findings.

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some_guy @lemmy.sdf.org - 1.4yr

Fowler’s discovery helped lead to a revolution in the theory of particle physics, and it continues to be proven correct – predicting particles such as the Higgs boson, discovered at Cern in Geneva, Switzerland.

Still very relevant. Higgs is even in public consciousness to some degree. I mean, I know the name (and nothing else about it) and I’m only a curious person who reads stuff online. Awesome that they honored her.

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Chrobin @discuss.tchncs.de - 1.4yr

I think you're right. I only remembered kaon oscillations, but not that they also break CP.

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