Peter Higgs

GPTKB entity
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Predicate Object
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gptkbp:awardReceived gptkb:Companion_of_Honour
gptkb:Dirac_Medal
gptkb:Fellow_of_the_Royal_Society
gptkb:Nobel_Prize_in_Physics
gptkb:Sakurai_Prize
gptkb:Wolf_Prize_in_Physics
gptkbp:birthName gptkb:Peter_Ware_Higgs
gptkbp:children 2
gptkbp:dateOfBirth 1929-05-29
gptkbp:dateOfDeath 2024-04-08
gptkbp:doctoralAdvisor gptkb:Charles_Coulson
gptkb:Christopher_Longuet-Higgins
gptkbp:employer gptkb:University_of_Edinburgh
gptkbp:field gptkb:theoretical_physics
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Peter Higgs
gptkbp:influenced gptkb:Carl_Hagen
gptkb:Francois_Englert
gptkb:Gerald_Guralnik
gptkb:Robert_Brout
gptkb:Tom_Kibble
gptkbp:influencedBy gptkb:Niels_Bohr
gptkb:Paul_Dirac
gptkb:Richard_Feynman
gptkbp:knownFor gptkb:Higgs_boson
gptkb:Higgs_mechanism
electroweak symmetry breaking
gptkbp:memberOf gptkb:Royal_Society
gptkb:Royal_Society_of_Edinburgh
gptkbp:nationality British
gptkbp:notableStudent none
gptkbp:placeOfBirth gptkb:Newcastle_upon_Tyne
gptkbp:placeOfDeath gptkb:Edinburgh
gptkbp:position Professor emeritus
gptkbp:publishedIn gptkb:Physical_Review_Letters
gptkb:Physics_Letters
gptkbp:religion atheism
gptkbp:residence gptkb:Edinburgh
gptkbp:signature Peter_Higgs_signature.svg
gptkbp:spouse gptkb:Jodie_Hinshelwood
gptkbp:thesisTitle gptkb:Some_problems_in_the_theory_of_molecular_vibrations
gptkbp:thesisYear 1954
gptkbp:website https://www.ed.ac.uk/profile/peter-higgs
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