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 Peter Higgs | |
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 Higgs at a press conference, Stockholm, December 2013 | |
| Born |
Peter Ware Higgs 29 Mey 1929 Newcastle upon Tyne, Ingland |
| Residence | Edinburgh, Scotland |
| Naitionality | British |
| Alma mater | King's College Lunnon |
| Kent for |
Broken symmetry in electroweak theory Higgs boson Higgs field Higgs mechanism |
| Awairds |
Nobel Prize in Pheesics (2013) Wolf Prize in Pheesics (2004) Sakurai Prize (2010) Dirac Medal (1997) Rutherford Medal an Prize (1984) Hughes Medal (1981) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Pheesics (theoretical) |
| Institutions |
Varsity o Edinburgh Imperial College Lunnon King's College Lunnon Varsity College Lunnon |
| Thesis | Some problems in the theory of molecular vibrations (1955) |
| Doctoral advisor | Charles Coulson[1] |
| Doctoral students |
Christopher Bishop Lewis Ryder David Wallace[1] |
| Wabsteid | |
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Peter Ware Higgs CH FRS FRSE (born 29 Mey 1929) is a Breetish theoretical pheesicist, Nobel Prize laureate an emeritus professor at the Varsity o Edinburgh.[3][4]
References[eedit | eedit soorce]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Peter Higgs at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; no text was provided for refs namedNS - ↑ Griggs, Jessica (Summer 2008) The Missing Piece Edit the University of Edinburgh Alumni Magazine, p. 17
- ↑ Overbye, Dennis (15 September 2014). "A Discoverer as Elusive as His Particle". New York Times. Retrieved 15 September 2014.
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