Gerardus 't Hooft

Gerardus 't Hooft (2016) - How One Single Elementary Particle Can Make the Difference

Billions of Euros have been spent recently just to find out more about the tiniest structures in the sub-atomic world. One of the main tasks of a new particle accelerator, the LHC, was to observe a new particle species, the Higgs particle. Exactly this particle was one of the main themes of my thesis in 1972