European Entrepreneurs, Biography, Peter Higgs, Higgs boson, Born in 1929

Peter Higgs, born in 1929, is a British theoretical physicist and an emeritus professor at the University of Edinburgh.

He is best known for his 1960s proposal of the mechanism of spontaneous symmetry breaking, which predicted the existence of the Higgs boson.

In 2013, the Higgs boson was discovered and verified, for which he received the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics.

He has also made important contributions to the understanding of condensed matter, especially in the theory of superconductivity.

He was awarded the Dirac Medal in 1979 and the Wolf Prize in Physics in 1982.

Higgs is a Fellow of the Royal Society, a lifetime member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, and a foreign associate of the National Academy of Sciences.

Higgs was appointed CBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours in 1982, knighted in the Queen's Birthday Honours in the United Kingdom in 2004, and awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in the United States in 2012.

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