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dublinben · 4429 days ago · link · · parent · post: House of dreams -Scientists race to explain why the Higgs boson matters
Is Stephen Hawking, another Brit, not a household name? One of the more famous American physicists in recent decades, Carl Sagan, had a major Hollywood blockbuster based on his book dedicated to him. Even though he's a trained engineer, Bill Nye also probably inspired a generation of scientists.
It seems that scientists have only been failing at the public relations fight for the last decade or so.