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| Guardian's Ian Sample wins science journalism award | Guardian's Ian Sample wins science journalism award |
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| Guardian science correspondent Ian Sample has won the prize for best news story at the Association of British Science Writers annual awards. | Guardian science correspondent Ian Sample has won the prize for best news story at the Association of British Science Writers annual awards. |
| He won the award for his piece on the announcement that scientists at Cern, the particle physics lab near Geneva, had found overwhelming evidence for the long sought after Higgs boson, nicknamed the "God particle". | He won the award for his piece on the announcement that scientists at Cern, the particle physics lab near Geneva, had found overwhelming evidence for the long sought after Higgs boson, nicknamed the "God particle". |
| Sample won praise from the judges, a panel of science journalists, for explaining the difficult science of the discovery in a critical but accessible way. He shared the award with Geoff Brumfiel for a piece in Nature on the aftermath of the Fukushima nuclear disaster. | Sample won praise from the judges, a panel of science journalists, for explaining the difficult science of the discovery in a critical but accessible way. He shared the award with Geoff Brumfiel for a piece in Nature on the aftermath of the Fukushima nuclear disaster. |
| Connie St Louis, president of the ABSW, said: "Ian's entry was outstanding. There are lots of questions that people want to ask about the Higgs boson and his piece answered many of them." | Connie St Louis, president of the ABSW, said: "Ian's entry was outstanding. There are lots of questions that people want to ask about the Higgs boson and his piece answered many of them." |
| Sue Nelson, broadcaster and a judge, added: "His piece was a fantastic mixture of news and background information I'd not heard before. At the end of it I came away with a 'wow'! | Sue Nelson, broadcaster and a judge, added: "His piece was a fantastic mixture of news and background information I'd not heard before. At the end of it I came away with a 'wow'! |
| "It explained extremely difficult science in a way that made it a joy to read – and it taught me something new." | "It explained extremely difficult science in a way that made it a joy to read – and it taught me something new." |
| The Guardian's Aleks Krotoski also won in the Radio category for a programme on BBC Radio 4 entitled Digital Human. | The Guardian's Aleks Krotoski also won in the Radio category for a programme on BBC Radio 4 entitled Digital Human. |
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