The phrase "God particle" is a corruption of Goddamit. Nobel Prize- winning physicist Leon Lederman once dubbed it the “goddamn” particle, because it has proved so hard to isolate. That name was changed by an editor to the “God” particle, and the name has stuck on.

The name Higgs boson came from a British scientist Peter Higgs and Bose, who studied at Presidency College, Calcutta, The work done by Bose and Albert Einstein, later added by Higgs, led to this pioneering day.

The fact that only the "H" in Higgs boson is capitalized in most cases has been a subject matter of debate among the Indian scientific fraternity.

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