Peter Higgs |
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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) ![Owerset](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/Noun_Project_label_icon_1116097_cc_mirror.svg/10px-Noun_Project_label_icon_1116097_cc_mirror.svg.png) H. Christopher Longuet-Higgins (en) ![Owerset](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/Noun_Project_label_icon_1116097_cc_mirror.svg/10px-Noun_Project_label_icon_1116097_cc_mirror.svg.png) |
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Doctoral student | Lewis Ryder (en) ![Owerset](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/Noun_Project_label_icon_1116097_cc_mirror.svg/10px-Noun_Project_label_icon_1116097_cc_mirror.svg.png) John Murrough Golden (en) ![Owerset](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/Noun_Project_label_icon_1116097_cc_mirror.svg/10px-Noun_Project_label_icon_1116097_cc_mirror.svg.png) David Wallace (en) ![Owerset](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/Noun_Project_label_icon_1116097_cc_mirror.svg/10px-Noun_Project_label_icon_1116097_cc_mirror.svg.png) Christopher M. Bishop (en) ![Owerset](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/Noun_Project_label_icon_1116097_cc_mirror.svg/10px-Noun_Project_label_icon_1116097_cc_mirror.svg.png) David Stephenson (en) ![Owerset](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/Noun_Project_label_icon_1116097_cc_mirror.svg/10px-Noun_Project_label_icon_1116097_cc_mirror.svg.png) Nick Dorey (en) ![Owerset](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/Noun_Project_label_icon_1116097_cc_mirror.svg/10px-Noun_Project_label_icon_1116097_cc_mirror.svg.png) |
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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) an pheesicist |
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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) ![Owerset](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/Noun_Project_label_icon_1116097_cc_mirror.svg/10px-Noun_Project_label_icon_1116097_cc_mirror.svg.png) |
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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) ![Owerset](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/Noun_Project_label_icon_1116097_cc_mirror.svg/10px-Noun_Project_label_icon_1116097_cc_mirror.svg.png) Royal Society of Edinburgh (en) ![Owerset](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/Noun_Project_label_icon_1116097_cc_mirror.svg/10px-Noun_Project_label_icon_1116097_cc_mirror.svg.png) Institute of Physics (en) ![Owerset](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/Noun_Project_label_icon_1116097_cc_mirror.svg/10px-Noun_Project_label_icon_1116097_cc_mirror.svg.png) King's College London (en) ![Owerset](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/Noun_Project_label_icon_1116097_cc_mirror.svg/10px-Noun_Project_label_icon_1116097_cc_mirror.svg.png) Swansea University (en) ![Owerset](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/Noun_Project_label_icon_1116097_cc_mirror.svg/10px-Noun_Project_label_icon_1116097_cc_mirror.svg.png) Royal Scottish Society of Arts (en) ![Owerset](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/Noun_Project_label_icon_1116097_cc_mirror.svg/10px-Noun_Project_label_icon_1116097_cc_mirror.svg.png) Saltire Society Science Museum (en) ![Owerset](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/Noun_Project_label_icon_1116097_cc_mirror.svg/10px-Noun_Project_label_icon_1116097_cc_mirror.svg.png) James Clerk Maxwell Foundation (en) ![Owerset](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/Noun_Project_label_icon_1116097_cc_mirror.svg/10px-Noun_Project_label_icon_1116097_cc_mirror.svg.png) |
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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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