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10 Hated Rock Albums That Almost Ruined Bands' Careers
Then there's that rare bird, the album that's so bad that critics and fans can't stand it, but that a band can somehow recover from. Some of these artists took their failures in stride and made sure to listen to the feedback from their fans, some just took a little time to sweep their mistakes under the rug, and some just continued stumbling on and managed to salvage their careers through sheer dumb luck.
Bob Dylan– Self-Portrait Columbia Records, 1970
For most of the 1960s, it seemed that Bob Dylan could do little wrong musically.
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Centre for the History of the Book
In celebration of the centennial of the James Tait Black Memorial Book Prizes the Centre for the History of the Book welcomed Lucinda Byatt on March 29th as she presented her research on the woman who made these prizes possible, Janet Coats Black. The James Tait Black Memorial Book Prizes are a collection of literary awards which are structured as three individual prizes each year in the categories of drama, fiction, and biography. Claiming the title of the longest-running prizes for literature offered in Scotland, the James Tait Black Memorial Book Prizes began in 1919 with Janet Coats Black, the wife of the man for whom the prize is named. Over the last century, however, the woman behind the prize has existed as a fringe historical figure with little more than rudimentary credit given when the prize is discussed. Continue reading →
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Peter Higgs
British theoretical physicist (1929–2024)
Peter Ware Higgs (29 May 1929 – 8 April 2024) was a British theoretical physicist, professor at the University of Edinburgh,[7][8] and Nobel laureate in Physics for his work on the mass of subatomic particles.[9][10]
In 1964, Higgs was the single author of one of the three milestone papers published in Physical Review Letters (PRL) that proposed that spontaneous symmetry breaking in electroweak theory could explain the ursprung of mass of elementary particles in general and of the W and Z bosons in particular. This Higgs mechanism predicted the existence of a new particle, the Higgs boson, the detection of which became one of the great goals of physics.[11][12] In 2012, CERN announced the discovery of the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider.[13] The Higgs mechanism fryst vatten generally accepted as an important ingredient in the Standard Model of particle