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
school physics wonder
My recollection of the higher school certificate, which involved a practical exam in physics, was being confronted with an experiment involving a sort of barometer arrangement, wondering why I couldn't make it work.
glasses light water
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.
want eccentric cranky
Nobody else took what I was doing seriously, so nobody would want to work with me. I was thought to be a bit eccentric and maybe cranky.
asking lifetime my-family
I never expected this to happen in my lifetime and shall be asking my family to put some champagne in the fridge.