biography
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Higgs, Peter (Ware)
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| Theoretical physicist, born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Tyne and Wear, NE England, UK. He studied at Kings College London, and between 1954 and 1960 held posts at the University of Edinburgh, Imperial College London, and University College London. In 1960 he returned to Edinburgh as lecturer in mathematical physics, becoming professor of theoretical physics (1980–96). He is best known for the Higgs particle, predicted via the Higgs mechanism (1964), which is a generalization of ideas developed by Philip Anderson in the context of condensed matter physics, especially superconductivity, to relativistic quantum field theory. |
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