that could determine the evolution of the Universe. In the same year, Okun together with Mikhail B. Voloshin and I. Y. Kobzarev published a pioneering paper on the decay of the false vacuum--a subject that unexpectedly became of a relevance to the physical vacuum in our Universe after the discovery of the Higgs boson with mass 125 GeV.

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He has served as a member of the Scientific Policy Committees of CERN, SSC

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