Peter Higgs

Prize: Nobel Prize in Physics — 2013
for the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles, and which recently was confirmed through the discovery of the predicted fundamental particle, by the ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN's Large Hadron Collider
Together with: François Englert

Citizenship: United Kingdom
Languages: English
date of birth: 5/29/1929
place of birth: Newcastle upon Tyne
date of death: 4/8/2024
place of death: Edinburgh
Lived: 94 years

occupation: university teacher
physicist
theoretical physicist
particle physicist
field of work: theoretical physics
Higgs boson
molecular physics
educated at: King's College London
academic degree: Doctor of Philosophy
academic major: physics
start time: 1951
end time: 1954
King's College London
academic degree: Bachelor of Science
academic major: physics
start time: 1947
end time: 1950
King's College London
academic degree: Master of Science
academic major: physics
start time: 1950
end time: 1951
City of London School
start time: 1946
end time: 1947
Cotham School
start time: 1941
end time: 1946
employer: University of Edinburgh
start time: 1955
end time: 1956
University of Edinburgh
start time: 1960
end time: 1996
University of London
start time: 1956
end time: December 1958
University College London
start time: January 1959
end time: 1960
Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851
start time: 1953
end time: 1955
position held: professor emeritus
start time: 1996
end time: 2024
member of: Royal Society of Edinburgh
start time: 1974
end time: 4/8/2024
Royal Society of London
start time: 1983
end time: 4/8/2024
Swansea University
start time: 2008
end time: 4/8/2024
King's College London
start time: 1998
end time: 4/8/2024
James Clerk Maxwell Foundation
start time: 2016
end time: 4/8/2024
Institute of Physics
start time: 1991
end time: 4/8/2024
Science Museum
start time: 2013
end time: 4/8/2024
Royal Scottish Society of Arts
start time: 2013
end time: 4/8/2024
Saltire Society
start time: 2013
end time: 4/8/2024
doctoral student: Nick Dorey
end time: 1991
John Murrough Golden
end time: 1970
Lewis Ryder
end time: 1966
Christopher M. Bishop
end time: 1983
David Wallace
end time: 1970
David Stephenson
end time: 1988
notable work: Higgs boson

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