# Genesis of Electroweak Unification and the Higgs

- Institution: CERN
- Department: CERN Colloquium
- Speaker: Tom W B Prof. Kibble
- Year: 2014
- Language: English
- Source: [CERN](https://videos.cern.ch/record/3013529)
- Licence: [CERN](http://copyright.web.cern.ch)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

I will give a historical account of the developments leading up to the unification of weak and electromagnetic interactions, as I saw them from my standpoint in Imperial College London. I will describe the state of physics in the 1950s, the aim of finding a unified theory of various interactions, the obstacles encountered in trying to unify the weak and electromagnetic interactions, and their eventual resolution, with a brief discussion of the later history culminating in the discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012..

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## Lectures

1. [Genesis of Electroweak Unification and the Higgs](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/cern/3013529/130b1e0a3f3c), 48 min (CERN's player)