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electroweak theory
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Italian-born physicist Dr. Enrico Fermi draws a diagram at a blackboard with mathematical equations. circa 1950.
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Italian physicist Guglielmo Marconi at work in the wireless room of his yacht Electra, c. 1920.
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electroweak theory: References & Edit History

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  • electromagnetic radiation
    / Quantum electrodynamics
  • fundamental force
  • matter
  • gauge theory
  • renormalization
  • standard model
  • unified field theory
  • physics
    / Particle physics
  • Higgs boson
  • Peter Higgs
  • subatomic particle
    / Field theory
  • subatomic particle
    / Toward a grand unified theory
  • weak interaction
  • subatomic particle
    / The weak force
  • subatomic particle
    / Electroweak theory: Describing the weak force
  • W particle
  • Z particle
  • François Englert
  • Gerardus ’t Hooft
  • Sheldon Glashow
  • Carlo Rubbia
  • Abdus Salam
  • Simon van der Meer
  • Martinus J.G. Veltman
  • Steven Weinberg

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