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The Boson Bet

Gordy, Stephen, and the Higgs

by Lois Kane

posted 9/4/2012

We asked Lois Kane, sometime Ann Arbor Observer writer, if she could/would write a piece about her husband, Gordy Kane, U-M professor of physics, winning a bet with Stephen Hawking. The bet concerned the existence (Kane) or non-existence (Hawking) of the Higgs boson. In July, physicists at the giant accelerator at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland, presented data