Peter Higgs

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academic human particle physicist theoretical physicist

Peter Higgs is a British theoretical physicist best known for proposing the Higgs mechanism, which predicted the existence of the Higgs boson and fundamentally shaped the Standard Model of particle physics.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	academic → human → particle physicist → theoretical physicist →
academicDegree	PhD in physics →
associatedWith	Higgs boson → Large Hadron Collider →
awardReceived	Copley Medal → Dirac Medal → High Energy and Particle Physics Prize of the EPS → J. J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics → Nobel Prize in Physics → Royal Medal → Sakurai Prize → Wolf Prize in Physics →
countryOfCitizenship	United Kingdom → United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland →
dateOfBirth	1929-05-29 →
educatedAt	Cotham Grammar School → King's College London →
employer	University of Edinburgh →
familyName	Higgs →
fieldOfWork	particle physics → quantum field theory → theoretical physics →
fullName	Peter Ware Higgs →
givenName	Peter →
hasHonorificTitle	CH → FRS → FRSE →
influenced	development of the Standard Model →
influencedBy	Paul Dirac → Yoichiro Nambu →
knownFor	Higgs mechanism → contributions to the Standard Model of particle physics → prediction of the Higgs boson →
memberOf	Institute of Physics → Royal Society → Royal Society of Edinburgh →
nobelPrizeCategory	Physics →
nobelPrizeMotivation	for the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles →
nobelPrizeYear	2013 →
notableWork	1964 paper on broken symmetries and the masses of gauge bosons →
placeOfBirth	Newcastle upon Tyne →
positionHeld	Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Edinburgh →
religion	atheism →
theory	Higgs mechanism → spontaneous symmetry breaking in gauge theories →
workLocation	Edinburgh →

Referenced by (18)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Albert Einstein World Science Award → Bakerian Medal and Prize → Hughes Medal → Royal Medal →	notableRecipient
François Englert → Robert Brout →	coAuthor
Carl Hagen →	coAuthorWith
Peter Higgs ("Peter Ware Higgs") →	fullName
Wolf Prize in Physics →	hasLaureate
King’s College London →	hasNotableAlumni
Uppsala University ("Peter Higgs (honorary doctorate, not student)") →	hasNotableAlumnus
University College London →	hasNotableFaculty
Princess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research →	hasNotableLaureates
Higgs field →	isPredictedBy
Nobel Prize in Physics →	notableLaureate
Higgs boson →	predictedBy
Higgs mechanism →	proposedBy
François Englert →	sharesNobelPrizeWith