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