Peter Higgs

Peter Higgs

Higgs in 2013
Born
Peter Ware Higgs

(1929-05-29) 29 May 1929 (age 94)
NationalityBritish[5]
Alma materKing's College London
University of London (BSc, MSc, PhD)
Known forHiggs boson
Higgs field
Higgs mechanism
Symmetry breaking
Spouse
Jody Williamson
(m. 1963)
Children2
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsTheoretical physics
InstitutionsUniversity of Edinburgh
Imperial College London
University College London
King's College London
ThesisSome problems in the theory of molecular vibrations (1955)
Doctoral advisorsCharles Coulson[1][2]
Christopher Longuet-Higgins[1][3]
Doctoral students
Websitewww.ph.ed.ac.uk/higgs Edit this at Wikidata
Signature

Peter Ware Higgs CH FRS FRSE HonFInstP (born 29 May 1929) is a British theoretical physicist, Emeritus Professor at the University of Edinburgh,[6][7] and Nobel Prize laureate for his work on the mass of subatomic particles.[8][9]

In the 1960s, Higgs proposed that broken symmetry in electroweak theory could explain the origin of mass of elementary particles in general and of the W and Z bosons in particular. This so-called Higgs mechanism, which was proposed by several physicists besides Higgs at about the same time, predicts the existence of a new particle, the Higgs boson, the detection of which became one of the great goals of physics.[10][11] On 4 July 2012, CERN announced the discovery of the boson at the Large Hadron Collider.[12] 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.[13]

Higgs has been honoured with a number of awards in recognition of his work, including the 1981 Hughes Medal from the Royal Society; the 1984 Rutherford Medal from the Institute of Physics; the 1997 Dirac Medal and Prize for outstanding contributions to theoretical physics from the Institute of Physics; the 1997 High Energy and Particle Physics Prize by the European Physical Society; the 2004 Wolf Prize in Physics; the 2009 Oskar Klein Memorial Lecture medal from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences; the 2010 American Physical Society J. J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics; and a unique Higgs Medal from the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2012.[14] The discovery of the Higgs boson prompted fellow physicist Stephen Hawking to note that he thought that Higgs should receive the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work,[15][16] which he finally did, shared with François Englert in 2013.[17] Higgs was appointed to the Order of the Companions of Honour in the 2013 New Year Honours[18][19] and in 2015 the Royal Society awarded him the Copley Medal, the world's oldest scientific prize.[20]

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  2. ^ a b Peter Higgs at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
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  4. ^ "Professor Christopher Bishop elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh". University of Edinburgh School of Informatics. Retrieved 8 September 2020.
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  6. ^ Griggs, Jessica (Summer 2008) The Missing Piece Archived 20 December 2016 at the Wayback Machine Edit the University of Edinburgh Alumni Magazine, p. 17
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  8. ^ Overbye, Dennis. A Pioneer as Elusive as His Particle Archived 23 July 2016 at the Wayback Machine, The New York Times website, 15 September 2014. Also published in print on 16 September 2014, on page D1 of the New York edition.
  9. ^ Blum, Deborah (15 July 2022). "The Recluse Who Confronted the Mystery of the Universe – Frank Close's "Elusive" looks at the life and work of the man who changed our ideas about the basis of matter". The New York Times. Retrieved 25 September 2022.
  10. ^ Griffiths, Martin (1 May 2007). "The tale of the blogs' boson". Physics World. Retrieved 5 March 2020.
  11. ^ Fermilab Today (16 June 2005) Fermilab Results of the Week. Top Quarks are Higgs' best Friend Archived 21 September 2008 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved on 27 May 2008
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  13. ^ Rincon, Paul (10 March 2004) Fermilab 'God Particle' may have been seen Archived 19 July 2008 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved on 27 May 2008
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  15. ^ "Higgs boson breakthrough should earn physicist behind search Nobel Prize: Stephen Hawking". National Press. 4 July 2012. Retrieved 5 July 2012.
  16. ^ Stephen Hawking on Higgs: 'Discovery has lost me $100'. BBC. Archived from the original on 6 July 2012. Retrieved 6 July 2012.
  17. ^ Amos, Jonathan (8 October 2013) Higgs: Five decades of noble endeavour Archived 11 June 2016 at the Wayback Machine BBC News Science and Environment; retrieved 8 October 2013
  18. ^ "No. 60367". The London Gazette (Supplement). 29 December 2012. p. 28.
  19. ^ Rincon, Paul (28 December 2012). "Peter Higgs: honour for physicist who proposed particle". BBC News website. Archived from the original on 29 December 2012. Retrieved 29 December 2012.
  20. ^ "Prof Peter Higgs wins the Royal Society's Copley Medal". BBC News. 20 July 2015. Archived from the original on 23 July 2015. Retrieved 22 July 2015.

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