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 Originally Posted by OngBonga
Except Higgs. He's a household name, although maybe that's just because he's British. Maybe random Americans haven't heard of him.
Although I have to admit, I had to google his name to remember if it's John or Peter.
That's only really because science has to justify spending billions of dollars building a toy.
The problem is that when you look through the list for reasons why people won the award the words don't really mean anything to the average person and those that do tend to be for fairly "tame"* things. I think the same is true for most of the awards.
*Not to diminish the work or how important it is.
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