"Higgs mechanism should be renamed the “ABEGHHK'tH mechanism”"
— Peter Higgs

January 1, 1970

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During the opening of one conference Peter Higgs attended to. The name is after all of the people (Philip Warren Anderson, Robert Brout, François Englert, Gerry Guralnik, Dick Hagen, Peter Higgs, Tom Kibble and Gerard 't Hooft) who discovered it, or rediscovered it.