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Also Known As Peter Ware Higgs
Born May 29, 1929 • Newcastle upon Tyne • England
Died April 8, 2024 (aged 94) • Edinburgh • Scotland
Awards And Honors Copley Medal (2015)
Subjects Of Study Higgs boson • Higgs field • Higgs mechanism • boson

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François Englert, 2012
François Englert
Belgian physicist
James Chadwick
James Chadwick
British physicist
William Crookes
Sir William Crookes
British chemist
P.A.M. Dirac
P.A.M. Dirac
English physicist
J.J. Thomson
J.J. Thomson
British physicist
John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh
Lord Rayleigh
British scientist
Bragg, Sir Lawrence
Sir Lawrence Bragg
British physicist
Sir William Bragg
Sir William Bragg
British physicist
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Patrick Blackett
British physicist
C.T.R. Wilson, 1927
C.T.R. Wilson
British physicist
Nevill F. Mott
Sir Nevill F. Mott
British physicist
Henry Cavendish
Henry Cavendish
British physicist
Emilio Segrè
Emilio Segrè
Italian-American physicist
Alessandro Volta
Alessandro Volta
Italian physicist
Adam Riess
Adam Riess
American astronomer
Brian P. Schmidt.
Brian P. Schmidt
American-born Australian astronomer
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Martinus J.G. Veltman
Dutch physicist
Saul Perlmutter
Saul Perlmutter
American physicist
Grünberg, Peter
Peter Grünberg
German scientist
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Albert Fert
French scientist

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