Peter Higgs - Wikipedia
In 1964, Higgs was the single author of one of the three milestone papers published in Physical Review Letters (PRL) that proposed that spontaneous symmetry breaking in electroweak theory could …
Peter Higgs | Biography, Awards, & Facts | Britannica
Nov 19, 2025 · Peter Higgs was a British physicist who was awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize for Physics for proposing the existence of the Higgs boson, a subatomic particle that is the carrier particle of a …
Peter Higgs obituary: physicist who predicted boson that ... - Nature
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 …
Peter Higgs obituary: the shy man who changed our understanding
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 came up with the revolutionary...
Peter Higgs – Facts - NobelPrize.org
Apr 8, 2024 · Peter Higgs was born in Newcastle upon Tyne in the UK, to a Scottish mother and an English father who worked as a sound engineer at the BBC. Because he suffered from asthma, …
RIP Peter Higgs, who laid foundation for the Higgs boson in the 1960s
Apr 9, 2024 · Peter Higgs, the shy, somewhat reclusive physicist who won a Nobel Prize for his theoretical work on how the Higgs boson gives elementary particles their mass, has died at the age …
Peter Higgs, who proposed the existence of the Higgs boson ... - PBS
Apr 9, 2024 · LONDON (AP) — Nobel prize-winning physicist Peter Higgs, who proposed the existence of the so-called “God particle” that helped explain how matter formed after the Big Bang, has died at …
Peter Higgs, Nobelist Who Predicted the ‘God Particle,’ Dies at 94
Apr 9, 2024 · Peter Higgs, who predicted the existence of a new particle that came to be named after him (as well as God) and sparked a half-century, worldwide, billion-dollar search for it culminating in...
Peter Higgs (1929–2024) | Science
Jun 6, 2024 · Peter Ware Higgs, a particle physics icon, died on 8 April at the age of 94. Higgs illuminated the path to understanding how exact symmetries obeyed by the laws of nature might be …
Peter Higgs - King's College London
Peter Higgs (1929-2024) (Physics, 1950; MSc, 1952; PhD, 1954) was the theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate best known for his prediction of the existence of the Higgs boson.