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Higgsteria describes the excitement about the Higgs boson that ramped up ahead of a July 2012 conference in Australia.

The term was first used in New Scientist in an article by Lisa Grossman (published online first 19 June 2012),[1] while the Wikipedia article on Elizabeth Gibney claims that she dubbed the term in Times Higher Education om 19 July 2012.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Higgsteria as trouble brews for standard model, New Scientist 214, issue 2870, 23 June 2012, page 4.
  2. ↑ "Research Intelligence - Higgsteria: it's only the beginning". Times Higher Education (THE). 2012-07-19.
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