| LC control no. | no2010189476 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Higgs, Peter, 1929- |
| Variant(s) | Higgs, Peter W., 1929- |
| Birth date | 1929-05-29 |
| Place of birth | Newcastle upon Tyne (England) |
| 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) |
| Associated language | eng |
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