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Peter Higgs

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Also known as Higgs P, P Higgs, Peter W. Higgs

British physicist and Nobel Prize winner (1929–2024)

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Peter Higgs was a British physicist who made groundbreaking contributions to understanding the fundamental nature of matter and energy. He is best known for predicting the existence of the Higgs boson, a particle that helps explain why other particles have mass, and he received the Nobel Prize in Physics for this work.

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  • CERN, or The Factory for the Absolute — Self2010

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Nobel Prize

  • The Nobel Prize in Physics2013

    “for the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles, and which recently was confirmed through the discovery of the predicted fundamental particle, by the ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN's Large Hadron Collider”

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Instance of
human
Gender
male
Citizenship
United Kingdom
Place of birth
Newcastle upon Tyne
Place of death
Edinburgh
Occupation
university teacher
Position held
professor emeritus
Educated at
King's College London
Employer
University of Edinburgh
Languages spoken
English language
Native language
English language
Religion
atheism
Notable work
Higgs boson
Doctoral advisor
H. Christopher Longuet-Higgins
Field of work
Higgs boson
Official website
www.ph.ed.ac.uk/higgs
Image
Nobel Prize 24 2013.jpg
Number of children
2
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Peter Higgs
date of birth
1929-05-29
Erdős number
9
name in native language
Peter Ware Higgs
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date of death
2024-04-08
interested in
physics
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Encyclopedic overview

Peter Ware Higgs (29 May 1929 – 8 April 2024) was a British theoretical physicist, professor at the University of Edinburgh, and Nobel laureate in Physics for his work on the mass of subatomic particles.

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 origin 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. In 2012, CERN announced the discovery of the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider. The Higgs mechanism is generally accepted as an important ingredient in the Standard Model of particle physics, without which certain particles would have no mass.

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