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Peter Ware Higgs CH FRS FRSE HonFInstP (29 May 1929 – 8 April 2024) was a British theoretical physicist, professor at the University of Edinburgh, and Nobel laureate in Physics for his work on the mass of subatomic particles.
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Apr 9, 2024 · Prof Peter Higgs was best known for that mysterious-sounding thing nicknamed the 'God particle' - or just simply, and probably better-put, the Higgs boson. He...
Apr 12, 2024 · During a few weeks in the summer of 1964, Peter Higgs, a theoretical physicist at the University of Edinburgh, UK, wrote two short papers outlining his ideas for a mechanism that could give...
Apr 9, 2024 · The University of Edinburgh says Nobel prize-winning physicist Peter Higgs, who proposed the existence of the Higgs boson particle, has died at 94.
Apr 10, 2024 · Few scientists have come into as much fame in recent years as British theoretical physicist Peter Higgs, the namesake of the boson that was discovered in 2012, who died on 8 April, aged 94.
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Apr 9, 2024 · Peter Higgs, Nobelist Who Predicted the ‘God Particle,’ Dies at 94. The Higgs boson was named for him. It was a key element of the Standard Model, which encapsulated all human knowledge so far...
Jul 4, 2022 · A book review of Elusive, a biography of Peter Higgs, the British theoretical physicist who predicted the boson that gives mass to all other particles. The reviewer praises the book's accessible style and insights into Higgs's life and career, but criticizes some of the author's metaphors and judgments.
