Peter Higgs

Also known as Higgs P, P Higgs, Peter W. Higgs

British physicist and Nobel Prize winner (1929–2024)

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Peter Higgs was a British physicist who made groundbreaking contributions to understanding the fundamental nature of matter and energy. He is best known for predicting the existence of the Higgs boson, a particle that helps explain why other particles have mass, and he received the Nobel Prize in Physics for this work.

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Peter Higgs appears in Vinony's Nobel Prize in Physics collection — one of 230 entries. It also appears in Nobel Laureates.

Within Vinony's link graph, Peter Higgs is referenced by 614 other articles, and connects out to Nobel Prize in Physics, Higgs boson and University of Edinburgh.

It is catalogued under topics including 1929 births, 2024 deaths and 20th-century atheists.

Its subject is documented across 89 Wikipedia language editions.

Person · Open Library

Works: 6

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Agón!
Fairway to heaven
Sicily
Cleopatra regina d'Egitto
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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: Jamaica
Active from: 1940-06-03
Active to: 1999-12-18

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Discography

Life of Contradiction1975
Sound of the City1978
Unity Is Power1979
Triumph!1985
Family1988
Blackman Know Yourself1990
Life of Contradiction1995
You Hurt My Soul / Why Am I Treated So Bad?2011
Unity Is Power2013

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Listeners: 4
Total plays: 9

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

Cutoff criteria for fit indexes in covariance structure analysis: Conventional criteria versus new alternatives
· 1999 · cited 87,318x
A new method of classifying prognostic comorbidity in longitudinal studies: Development and validation
· 1987 · cited 42,797x
QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data
· 2010 · cited 30,940x
RoB 2: a revised tool for assessing risk of bias in randomised trials
· 2019 · cited 25,505x
The ERA5 global reanalysis
· 2020 · cited 24,148x

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Quotes

“This summer I have discovered something totally useless.”
“When you look at a vacuum in a quantum theory of fields, it isn't exactly nothing.”
“The way that the background fields generates mass is rather like the way in which when light passes through a transparent medium like glass or water, it gets slowed down. It no longer travels with the fundamental velocity of light c. And that's the way to think of the generation of mass.”
“There is a sort of mythology that grows up about what happened, which is different from what really did happen.”
“It’s about understanding! Understanding the world!”
“The point came when people were doing things I didn't feel competent to do myself. I'm not being modest, I honestly get lost. I was lucky in spotting what I did when I did, but there comes a point where you realise what you're doing is not going to be much good.”

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Nobel Prize

The Nobel Prize in Physics2013
“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”
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Wikidata facts

Official website: www.ph.ed.ac.uk/higgs
Image: Nobel Prize 24 2013.jpg
Number of children: 2

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Commons category: Peter Higgs
date of birth: 1929-05-29
Erdős number: 9
name in native language: Peter Ware Higgs
date of death: 2024-04-08

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Encyclopedic overview

Peter Ware Higgs (29 May 1929 – 8 April 2024) 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.

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 explain the origin of mass of elementary particles in general and of the W and Z bosons in particular. This Higgs mechanism predicted the existence of a new particle, the Higgs boson, the detection of which became one of the great goals of physics. In 2012, CERN announced the discovery of the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider. The Higgs mechanism is generally accepted as an important ingredient in the Standard Model of particle physics, without which certain particles would have no mass.

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