Linux was used to find the Higgs: http://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/w2ly6/new_boson_found_by_linux/
I am not really surprised, but what does disturb me is that the distros used in the effort were mainly "Scientific Linux and Ubuntu." Where was Gentoo? Somebody had better counsel these scientists to be better able to discern the quality of a Linux distro. Frank Peters
