Peter Higgs

Peter Higgs
	Peter Higgs in 2013
professor emeritus (en)	; 1996 - 2024
professor emeritus (en)
Personal details
Birth	Newcastle upon Tyne (en) Mey 29, 1929
Native leid	Inglis
Died	Edinburgh Apryle 8, 2024
Eddication
Eddication	Cotham School (en) ; (1941 - 1946) ; City of London School (en) ; (1946 - 1947) ; King's College London (en) ; (1947 - 1950) Bachelor o Science : naitural philosophy; King's College London (en) ; (1950 - 1951) Master of Science (en) : naitural philosophy; King's College London (en) ; (1951 - 1954) Doctor o Filosofie : naitural philosophy
Doctoral advisor	Charles Coulson (en) ; H. Christopher Longuet-Higgins (en)
Doctoral student	Lewis Ryder (en) ; John Murrough Golden (en) ; David Wallace (en) ; Christopher M. Bishop (en) ; David Stephenson (en) ; Nick Dorey (en)
Leids spoken	Inglis
Thrift
Thrift	theoretical physicist (en) , researcher (en) , particle physicist (en) , pheesicistan university teacher (en)
Employer	Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 (en) (1953 - 1955); Varsity o Edinburgh (1955 - 1956); Varsity o Lunnon (1956 - December 1958); University College London (Januar 1959 - 1960); Varsity o Edinburgh (1960 - 1996)
Notable wirk	Higgs boson (en)
Awaird	list Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (en) (1974, , ); Hughes Medal (en) (1981, , ); Fellow of the Royal Society (en) (1983, , ); Rutherford Medal and Prize (en) (1984, , ); Fellow of the Institute of Physics (en) (1991, , ); James Scott Prize Lectureship (en) (1993, , ); High Energy and Particle Physics Prize (en) (1997, , ); IOP Dirac Medal (en) (1997, , ); honorary doctor of the University of Bristol (en) (1997, , ); honorary doctor of the University of Edinburgh (en) (1998, , ); Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Physics (en) (1999, , ); honorary doctorate of the University of Glasgow (en) (2002, , ); Wolf Prize in Physics (en) (2004, , ); Oskar Klein Medal (en) (2009, , ); Sakurai Prize (en) (2010, , ); honorary doctor of University College London (en) (2010, , ); honorary doctorate from the University of Cambridge (en) (2012, , ); honorary doctor of Heriot-Watt University (en) (2012, , ); Companion of Honour (en) (2013, , ); Clarivate Citation Laureates (en) (2013, , ); Edinburgh Medal (en) (2013, , ); Princess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research (en) (2013, , ); Nobel Prize in Pheesics (2013, , ); honorary doctor of Durham University (en) (2013, , ); honorary doctor of the University of Manchester (en) (2013, , ); citizen of Edinburgh (en) (2014, , ); honorary doctor of the University of St Andrews (en) (2014, , ); honorary doctorate of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (en) (2014, , ); Copley Medal (2015, , ); honorary doctor of Queen's University Belfast (en) (2015, , ); honorary doctorate of Trinity College, Dublin (en) (2016, , ) ;
Member o	Royal Society (en) ; Royal Society of Edinburgh (en) ; Institute of Physics (en) ; King's College London (en) ; Swansea University (en) ; Royal Scottish Society of Arts (en) ; Saltire Society; Science Museum (en) ; James Clerk Maxwell Foundation (en)
Reeligion
Reeligion	atheism
IMDb	nm4225682
	www.ph.ed.ac.uk/higgs

Peter Higgs (born 29 Mey 1929 in Newcastle upon Tyne; deed 8 Aprile 2024 in Edinburgh) wis pheesicist frae Britain an Nobel Prize winner for Pheesics in 2013. He is kenspeckle fur the diskiverie o the Higgs boson.

Fremmit airtins

Edinbirrie Varsitie: Peter Higgs and the Higgs Boson (Inglish).

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