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- Birth namePeter Ware Higgs
- Peter Higgs was born on May 29, 1929 in Wallsend, Newcastle upon Tyne, England, UK. He was married to Jody Williamson. He died on April 8, 2024 in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.
- SpouseJody Williamson(1963 - 2008) (her death, 2 children)
- A particle-physics theorist at the University of Edinburgh.
- He was awarded the C.H. (Companion of Honour) in the 2013 Queen's New Years Honours List for his services to physics. He is Emeritus Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Edinburgh in Edinburgh, Scotland.
- Winner, along with physicist Francois Englert of Belgium, of the 2013 Nobel Prize in physics.
- Higgs and Belgium physicist Francois Englert won the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics "for the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles, and which recently was confirmed through the discovery of the predicted fundamental particle...".
- Edinburgh, Scotland: Professor
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