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Peter Higgs

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Peter Higgs has received more than 1,371,197 page views. His biography is available in 73 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 72 in 2019). Peter Higgs is the 89th most popular physicist (down from 74th in 2019), the 277th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 260th in 2019) and the 17th most popular British Physicist.

Peter Higgs is most famous for his theory of the Higgs Boson, which is a subatomic particle that gives mass to other particles.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Peter Higgs ranks 89 out of 717. Before him are Carl David Anderson, Barry Barish, Clinton Davisson, Eugene Wigner, John Bardeen, and Arnold Sommerfeld. After him are Paul Langevin, Arthur Compton, Charles Édouard Guillaume, Dennis Gabor, James Franck, and Manne Siegbahn.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Peter Higgs ranks 25. Before him are Hafizullah Amin, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Christopher Plummer, Irene Papas, Michael Ende, and Sándor Kocsis. After him are Chet Baker, Oriana Fallaci, Karolos Papoulias, Tigran Petrosian, Babrak Karmal, and Graham Hill.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Peter Higgs ranks 277 out of 7,765. Before him are Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester (1901), Nicholas Winton (1909), John Keats (1795), Jane Goodall (1934), Benjamin Britten (1913), and Jocelyn Bell Burnell (1943). After him are Alec Guinness (1914), Daniel Craig (1968), Mordred (null), Daniel Day-Lewis (1957), Anne Brontë (1820), and Cyrano de Bergerac (1619).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United Kingdom

Among physicists born in United Kingdom, Peter Higgs ranks 17. Before him are James Chadwick (1891), Charles Thomson Rees Wilson (1869), Roger Penrose (1931), William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin (1824), John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh (1842), and Owen Willans Richardson (1879). After him are William Henry Bragg (1862), Henry Moseley (1887), Edward Victor Appleton (1892), George Paget Thomson (1892), C. F. Powell (1903), and Charles Glover Barkla (1877).

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