一切真相大白了，Steven Weinberg在他的文章The crisis of big science提到
"As to my responsibility for the name “Higgs boson,” because of a mistake in reading the dates on these three earlier papers, I thought that the earliest was the one by Higgs, so in my 1967 paper I cited Higgs first, and have done so since then. Other physicists apparently have followed my lead. But as Close points out, the earliest paper of the three I cited was actually the one by Robert Brout and François Englert. In extenuation of my mistake, I should note that Higgs and Brout and Englert did their work independently and at about the same time, as also did the third group (Gerald Guralnik, C.R. Hagen, and Tom Kibble). But the name “Higgs boson” seems to have stuck."
歷史的巧合把Higgs boson的名字給了Peter Higgs，一切都只是Weinberg在寫論文時沒注意先後順序，於是Robert Brout和Francois Englert徹底被神隱。話說回來，將基本粒子用某人命名是哪招呢？
