Peter Higgs
British physicist and Nobel Prize winner (1929ā2024) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Peter Ware Higgs CH FRS FRSE (29 May 1929 ā 8 April 2024) was an English theoretical physicist, and emeritus professor at the University of Edinburgh.[1]
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Peter Higgs | |
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Born | Peter Ware Higgs (1929-05-29)29 May 1929 |
Died | 8 April 2024(2024-04-08) (aged 94) |
Nationality | British |
Alma mater | King's College London |
Known for | Broken symmetry in electroweak theory Higgs boson Higgs field Higgs mechanism |
Awards | Wolf Prize in Physics (2004) Sakurai Prize (2010) Dirac Medal (1997) Nobel Prize in Physics (2013) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Physics (theoretical) |
Institutions | University of Edinburgh Imperial College London University College London |
Thesis | Some problems in the theory of molecular vibrations (1955) |
Doctoral advisor | Charles Coulson |
Doctoral students | Christopher Bishop Lewis Ryder David Wallace |
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