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December 15, 2012

Top 10 Physics Breakthroughs of 2012

Hamish Johnston, Physics World


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The Physics World award for the 2012 Breakthrough of the Year goes "to the ATLAS and CMS collaborations at CERN for their joint discovery of a Higgs-like particle at the Large Hadron Collider". Nine other research initiatives are highly commended and cover topics ranging from energy harvesting to precision cosmology

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