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My contribution to this workshop is history not physics. I shall give a personal account of the “invention” of what a British Sunday paper recently described as “the mythical Higgs’ particle”. I hope to have convinced you by my presence at this meeting that I am not a myth, even if the particle named after me is.
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Higgs, P. (1990). Inventing an Elementary Particle. In: Ali, A. (eds) Higgs Particle(s). Ettore Majorana International Science Series, vol 50. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-0908-7_1
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