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hep-th2002
A Brief Course in Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking I. The Paleolitic Age
Robert Brout
The physical world is marked by the phenomenon of spontaneous broken symmetry (SBS) i.e. where the state of a system is assymmetric with respect to the symmetry principles that gov…
hep-th1998
Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking in Gauge Theories: a Historical Survey
R. Brout, F. Englert
The personal and scientific history of the discovery of spontaneous symmetry breaking in gauge theories is outlined and its scientific content is reviewed