Peter Higgs
Peter Higgs
Peter Ware Higgs CH FRS FRSEis a British theoretical physicist, emeritus professor at the University of Edinburgh, and Nobel Prize laureate for his work on the mass of subatomic particles...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth29 May 1929
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If the U.K. were threatening to withdraw from Europe, I would certainly want Scotland to be out of that.
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I'm a fan of supersymmetry, largely because it seems to be the only route by which gravity can be brought into the scheme. It's probably not even enough, but it's a way forward to get gravity involved. If you have supersymmetry, then there are more of these particles. That would be my favourite outcome.
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In 2002, a Scottish journalist, during a dinner meant to be private, absolutely wanted me to react to Stephen Hawking's comments. I said one shouldn't pay too much attention to what Hawking was saying because he was a celebrity but not a specialist of elementary particle theory.
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One of the first things I did on arriving at school was to break my left arm falling into a bomb crater.
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When my wife and I got married, she thought of me being an easygoing person, and I warned her I wasn't.
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It shouldn't be a Higgs field. If it's anybody's, it should be Goldstone field, I think. When Nambu wrote his short paper in 1960, Jeffrey Goldstone of Cambridge University, who was visiting Cern, heard about it. He then wrote a paper which was conceptually similar to what Nambu had done, but a simpler model.
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The model I came up with in 1964 is just the invention of a rather strange sort of medium that looks the same in all directions and produces a kind of refraction that is a little bit more complicated than that of light in glass or water.
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This summer I have discovered something totally useless.
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If the U.K. were threatening to withdraw from Europe, I would certainly want Scotland to be out of that.
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I would send back a statement: ‘None.’