Peter Higgs
Peter Ware Higgs 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.
Career Journey
Background
- Born in
- Newcastle upon Tyne
- Educated at
- King's College LondonCity of London SchoolCotham School
- Awards
- 🏆 Copley Medal🏆 Nobel Prize in Physics🏆 Sakurai Prize
- Doctoral Advisors
- 🎓 Charles Coulson
- Doctoral Students
- 📖 Christopher M. Bishop📖 David Wallace
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Trending topics shown first"It's very nice to be right sometimes ... it has certainly been a long wait."
"The way that the background fields generates mass is rather like the way in which when light passes through a transparent medium like glass or water, it gets slowed down. It no longer travels with the…"
"The point came when people were doing things I didn't feel competent to do myself. I'm not being modest, I honestly get lost. I was lucky in spotting what I did when I did, but there comes a point whe…"
"When you look at a vacuum in a quantum theory of fields, it isn't exactly nothing."
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Timeline
1929
Born
Birth2024
Died
Death
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