2014---IN REMEMBRANCE


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Gerald Guralnik, one of the physicists who predicted the Higgs boson, passed away on 26 April. While Guralnik's paper with Carl Hagan and Tom Kibble was nearly simultaneous with those by Robert Brout and Francois Englert and separately by Peter Higgs, only Englert and Higgs received the Nobel Prize (Brout passed away too soon). The ultimate reward for Guralnik was instead witnessing the discovery of the Higgs boson by the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in 2012, approximately 48 years after the prediction was made. Guralnik was one of a very few people who have placed keystones in our understanding of particle physics, not just of the Standard Model but also more broadly.
 







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