<story><title>How the Higgs Boson Ruined Peter Higgs’s Life</title><url>https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-the-higgs-boson-ruined-peter-higgss-life/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lalalandland</author><text>FWIW Bosons are named after a person</text></item><item><author>lokimedes</author><text>After we discovered the particle in June 2012, there was a large summer conference in Stockholm (a good few months before the Nobel announcement). In the spirit of jubilation the Municipality had arranged a classical “Nobel” reception at the Mayor’s Hall and banquet at the Vasa Museum in the evening.&lt;p&gt;As a good friend of the chair of the organizing committee, I was asked to help that evening, collecting invitations as people entered. After greeting the first 100 or so, up came this elderly man who has lost his invitation. He was very sorry, and asked if there was any way for him to prove he in fact was invited. I told the gentleman, that he could have mine in case there was any trouble. As Peter Higgs was allowed to enter the little dress rehearsal for what was to befall him in autumn, there was a warm chuckle around us.&lt;p&gt;I have met him on other occasions and perhaps it is exactly his non-selfish personality that has allowed the particle to carry his name in the first place. The rest of particle physics is luckily void of attributing eternal properties of nature to individuals.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rcshubhadeep</author><text>It is named after Prof Satyendra Nath Bose. A physicist and true polyglot from pre-independent India. He was in his twenties when he figured this out. Of course never really received any larger fame, as is customary for Theoretical scientists from South East Asia (well most of the time) but if anyone is interested here is the story - &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Satyendra_Nath_Bose&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Satyendra_Nath_Bose&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>How the Higgs Boson Ruined Peter Higgs’s Life</title><url>https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-the-higgs-boson-ruined-peter-higgss-life/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lalalandland</author><text>FWIW Bosons are named after a person</text></item><item><author>lokimedes</author><text>After we discovered the particle in June 2012, there was a large summer conference in Stockholm (a good few months before the Nobel announcement). In the spirit of jubilation the Municipality had arranged a classical “Nobel” reception at the Mayor’s Hall and banquet at the Vasa Museum in the evening.&lt;p&gt;As a good friend of the chair of the organizing committee, I was asked to help that evening, collecting invitations as people entered. After greeting the first 100 or so, up came this elderly man who has lost his invitation. He was very sorry, and asked if there was any way for him to prove he in fact was invited. I told the gentleman, that he could have mine in case there was any trouble. As Peter Higgs was allowed to enter the little dress rehearsal for what was to befall him in autumn, there was a warm chuckle around us.&lt;p&gt;I have met him on other occasions and perhaps it is exactly his non-selfish personality that has allowed the particle to carry his name in the first place. The rest of particle physics is luckily void of attributing eternal properties of nature to individuals.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>frutiger</author><text>And while Gell-Mann did not name them after himself, “three quarks for Muster Mark” is a delightful origin of that particle’s name.</text></comment>