Higgs boson
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- An elementary particle in the Standard Model, namely a boson with zero spin, that gives mass to other particles.
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From Higgs + boson; named after British physicist Peter Higgs, who is credited with proposing what is now called the Higgs mechanism. Korean-American theoretical physicist Benjamin W. Lee is generally credited with having coined the term.
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