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| Peter Higgs |
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 Peter Higgs in 2013 |
| Personal details |
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| Birth | Newcastle upon Tyne Mey 29, 1929 |
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| Native leid | Inglis |
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| Died | Edinburgh Apryle 8, 2024 |
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| Eddication |
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| 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 |
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| Doctoral advisor | Charles Coulson (en)
H. Christopher Longuet-Higgins (en) |
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| Doctoral student | Lewis Ryder (en)
John Murrough Golden (en)
David Wallace (en)
Christopher M. Bishop (en)
David Stephenson (en)
Nick Dorey (en) |
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| Leids spoken | Inglis |
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| Thrift |
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| Thrift | theoretical physicist (en) , researcher (en) , particle physicist (en) , pheesicistan university teacher (en) |
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| 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)
Varsity o Edinburgh (1996 - 2024)
Burnet Institute (en) (September 1996 -
Varsity o Technology (September 2022 - |
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| Notable wirk | Higgs boson (en) |
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| 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, , )
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| 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) |
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| Reeligion |
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| Reeligion | atheism |
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| IMDb | nm4225682 |
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| www.ph.ed.ac.uk/higgs |
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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.
