| LC control no. | no2010189476 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Higgs, Peter, 1929-2024 |
| Variant(s) | Higgs, Peter, 1929- Higgs, Peter W., 1929-2024 |
| Other standard no. | Q192112 0000 0001 0713 2514 |
| Birth date | 1929-05-29 |
| Death date | 2024-04-08 |
| Place of birth | Newcastle upon Tyne (England) |
| Place of death | Ediburgh (Scotland) |
| Field of activity | Physics Quantum theory Higgs bosons College teaching |
| Profession or occupation | Physicists Authors College teachers |
| Found in | Sample, I. Massive, 2010: p. 1 (Peter Higgs) Wikipedia, Nov. 22, 2010 (Peter Ware Higgs, FRS, FRSE, FKC; b. May 29, 1929, Newcastle upon Tyne; theoretical physicist; emeritus prof., Univ. of Edinburgh) Spontaneous symmetry breakdown without massless bosons, 1965: caption (Peter W. Higgs) p. 1 (on leave from the Tait Institute of Mathematical Physics, University of Edinburgh, Scotland) Close, Frank. Elusive : how Peter Higgs solved the mystery of mass, 2022: subj. (Peter Ware Higgs was born on May 29, 1929, in Newcastle upon Tyne ; he is one quarter Scottish, his parents were from Bristol ; physicist whose Higgs boson theory was the missing piece of the Standard Model of particle physics, and the key to understanding why particles have mass) Wikipedia, 15 April 2024 (Peter Higgs; d. 8 April 2024, Ediburgh, Scotland) |
| Associated language | eng |
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