The Waldegrave Higgs Challenge

In 1993, the then UK Science Minister, William Waldegrave, issued a challence to physicists to answer the questions 'What is the Higgs boson, and why do we want to find it?' on one side of a single sheet of paper.

Bottles of champagne were awarded to the five winning entries at the annual meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. The winning entries taken from Physics World Volume 6 Number 9, were:

Last updated on 19th August 1997, by Dr S.L.Lloyd