Quotes by Peter Higgs

About Peter Higgs:

Peter Ware Higgs is a British theoretical physicist, emeritus professor at the University of Edinburgh, and Nobel Prize laureate for his work on the mass of subatomic particles.
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The point came when people were doing things I didn't feel competent to do myself. I'm not being modest; I honestly get lost. I was lucky in spotting what I did when I did, but there comes a point where you realise what you're doing is not going to b...

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I liked Edinburgh as a university in a way that I'd never enjoyed King's College London. I realised after I came to Edinburgh that perhaps it was a mistake to have gone to a college which was bang in the centre of a vast city. It had a bad effect on ...

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After I retired, it was quite a long time before I went back to my department. I thought I was well out of it.

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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.

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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.

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Author Bio

  • NamePeter Higgs
  • DescriptionBritish physicist
  • AliasesPeter Ware Higgs
  • BornMay 29, 1929
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionTheoretical Physicist
  • AwardsNobel Prize In Physics; Hughes Medal; Rutherford Medal And Prize; Dirac Medal (IOP); Wolf Prize; Sakurai Prize; Fellow Of The Royal Society; Princess Of Asturias Award - Technical And Scientific Research