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Peter Higgs, in full Peter Ware Higgs, (born May 29, 1929, Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, England), British physicist who was awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize for Physics for proposing the existence of the Higgs boson, a subatomic particle that is the carrier particle of a field that endows all elementary particles with mass through its intera...

Peter W. Higgs. The Nobel Prize in Physics 2013. Born: 29 May 1929, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom. Affiliation at the time of the award: University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.

Peter Higgs is not the easiest subject for a biographer to tackle. A 93-year-old British theoretical physicist who won half of a Nobel prize in 2013, he is notoriously shy, inaccessible by e-mail...

P eter Higgs was born on 29 May 1929 in the Elswick district of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. He graduated with First Class Honours in Physics from King’s College, University of London, in 1950. A year later, he was awarded an MSc and started research, initially under the supervision of Charles Coulson and, subsequently, Christopher Longuet-Higgins.

Peter Ware Higgs CH FRS FRSE (born Newcastle upon Tyne, 29 May 1929) is an English theoretical physicist, and emeritus professor at the University of Edinburgh. Works. He was awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics for predicting the existence of the Higgs boson, the "most sought-after particle in modern physics".

Physicist Frank Close tells the story of Higgs and the physicist’s big idea in his new book Elusive: How Peter Higgs Solved the Mystery of Mass (Basic Books, 2022). Scientific American spoke to...

Peter Higgs, as Frank Close reveals in his new book, was just one of many physicists who helped crack the mystery of mass’s origins.

Updated on June 01, 2019 The Higgs field is the theoretical field of energy that permeates the universe, according to the theory put forth in 1964 by Scottish theoretical physicist Peter Higgs.