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adestefan on July 4, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: CERN experiments observe particle consistent with ...

Leon Lederman, an experimental physicist, was the one who first used the term god particle as the title for his book. There are many things to vilify the science media for, but this is not one of them.

jabr on July 4, 2012 [–]

He wanted to name the book "The Goddamn Particle" initially -- as a reference to its elusiveness -- but the publisher wore him down.

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