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Letter: Nominative case

Published 3 April 2012

From Brian Clegg

Your editorial mentions discussions on renaming the Higgs boson as the Englert-Brout-Higgs-Guralnik-Hagen-Kibble particle (17 March, p 3). Those hoping to do so should take note of history.

The scientific community made it clear that “X-rays” should be replaced by the official . That went well.

Swindon, Wiltshire, UK

Issue no. 2859 published 7 April 2012

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