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Abstract
The search for the left-handed W± bosons, the proposed quanta of the
weak interaction, and the Higgs boson, which spontaneously breaks the symmetry of
unification of electromagnetic and weak interactions, has driven elementary-particle
physics research from the time that I entered college to the present and has led to many
unexpected and exciting discoveries which revolutionized our view of subnuclear physics
over that period. In this article I describe how these searches and discoveries have
intertwined with my own career.
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The purpose of this journal is to catalyse, foster, and disseminate an awareness and understanding of the historical development of ideas in contemporary physics, and more generally, ideas about how Nature works.
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