‘Is that the one we’ve been reading about?” asked Richard Nixon, when he first met Janet Hewlett-Davies, press officer to the prime minister, Harold Wilson. In fact, the president had the ...
Peter Higgs, an unworldly and donnish academic, was reading some new research papers on July 16, 1964, when he had his eureka moment. “I looked at one, realised what it meant, and then jumped up ...