Carl Hagen: Spontaneous Symmetries, the Higgs Mechanism and the Nobel Prize (#080)

  I delighted in this remarkable opportunity to chat
with Carl Hagen , a man who, as much as anyone alive was
responsible for discovering the so-called Higgs Mechanism”. I found
Carl fascinating and very similar to his lifelong
friend and colleague, my former quantum
mechanics Professor at Brown University, Gerry Guralnik. The
so called “GHK Paper” co-authored by Gerry, Carl and
Tom Kibble is regarded as perhaps the most important and accurate
description of the mechanism by which massive particles like the
electron ‘acquire’ their masses. Carl and I agree — the Nobel
Prize is not the real reward — doing the science is. But
nevertheless, the process by which the history of science
is recorded often is by reference to those who win Nobel
Prizes. This, in my opinion at least, is the most pernicious
and sometimes cruel aspect of the Nobel Prizes…Let me
know what you think is the best and worst aspect of the Nobel
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