Physics pioneer, 98, honoured 75 years after discovery

A 98-year-old pioneering physicist who gave up her PhD 75 years ago to have a family has received an honorary doctorate from her old university. 

In 1948 Rosemary Fowler’s findings at the University of Bristol paved the way for critical discoveries that would rewrite the laws of physics. 

Her discovery of the Kaon particle helped lead to a revolution in the theory of particle physics, and it continues to be proven correct – predicting particles such as the Higgs boson, discovered at Cern in Geneva, Switzerland.

But in post-war Britain, Dr Fowler decided to leave academia when she married fellow physicist Peter Fowler in 1949.

By Nina Massey.
Full story at Yahoo News.