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Peter Higgs Biography

Peter Ware Higgs CH FRS FRSE FInstP (born 29 May 1929) is a British theoretical physicist, emeritus professor in the University of Edinburgh, and Nobel Prize laureate for his work on the mass of subatomic particles.

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There is a sort of mythology that grows up about what happened, which is different from what really did happen.

Different, Growing Up, Grows, Happen, Mythology, Sort

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.

Glasses, Light, Medium, Refraction, Water

This summer I have discovered something totally useless.

Discovered, Summer, Totally, Useless

If the U. K. were threatening to withdraw from Europe, I would certainly want Scotland to be out of that.

Europe, Scotland, Threatening, Want, Withdraw

The way that the background fields generates mass is rather like the way in which when light passes through a transparent medium like glass or water, it gets slowed down. It no longer travels with the fundamental velocity of light c. And that's the way to think of the generation of mass.

Glasses, Light, Thinking, Transparent, Way

That name was a kind of joke, and not a very good one. An author, Leon Lederman, wanted to call it 'that goddamn particle' because it was clear it was going to be a tough job finding it experimentally. His editor wouldn't have that, and he said 'okay, call it the God particle', and the editor accepted it. I don't think he should've have done, because it's so misleading.

Author, Editors, Jobs, Joke, Okay, Thinking

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.

Arrangement, Involved, Physics, School, Sort, Wonder

I was an embarrassment to the department when they did research assessment exercises. A message would go round the department: 'Please give a list of your recent publications. ' And I would send back a statement: 'None. '

Assessment, Back, Department, Exercise, Giving, List

Fundamentalism is another problem. I mean, Dawkins in a way is almost a fundamentalist himself, of another kind.

Fundamentalism, Kind, Mean, Problem, Way

I never expected this to happen in my lifetime and shall be asking my family to put some champagne in the fridge.

Asking, Expected, Family, Happen, Lifetime, My Family

When you look at a vacuum in a quantum theory of fields, it isn't exactly nothing.

Fields, Look, Looks, Nothing, Vacuum, Vacuums

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.

Cranky, Eccentric, Nobody, Thought, Took, Want

I would send back a statement: ‘None. ’

Back, Send, Statement, Statements

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