Peter W. Higgs

Peter W. Higgs, Nobel Laureate

Born: 1929-05-29 in Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Gender: male

Field: British theoretical physicist (1929–2024)

Biography

Peter Ware Higgs 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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Nobel Prize Details

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2013

Awarded on: 2013-10-08

"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"

Affiliations:

  • University of EdinburghEdinburgh, United Kingdom