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The full title given to this lecture in the programme, “The Origin of Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking Twenty-Five Years Ago”, was not my choice; it seems to imply that anything involving spontaneous symmetry breaking started only twenty-five years ago. In fact the story that I shall be telling is about how spontaneous symmetry breaking has been around in other parts of physics for quite a time before that, and how people like myself working in particle theory and field theory gradually came to understand what people in other branches of physics, particularly condensed matter physics, already knew.
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Higgs, P. (1991). Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking Twenty-Five Years Ago. In: Zichichi, A. (eds) Physics Up to 200 TeV. The Subnuclear Series, vol 28. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-3774-8_15
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