page_title: List of King's College London alumni
section_title: Physicists and astronomers
hierarchical_section_title: List of King's College London alumni / Scientists / Physicists and astronomers
caption_attribution_description: Peter Higgs
context_page_description: This list of King's College London alumni comprises notable graduates as well as non-graduate former, and current, students. It also includes those who may be considered alumni by extension, having studied at institutions later merged with King's College London. It does not include those whose only connection with the college is being a member of the staff or the conferral of an honorary degree or honorary fellowship.
context_section_description: Ronald Burge - physicist
  Leigh Canham – optoelectronics physicist
  Andrew Fabian - President of the Royal Astronomical Society
  Frank Farmer – physicist
  Michael Fisher - Wolf Prize in Physics laureate
  Marcelo Gleiser – physicist and astronomer
  Peter Higgs - proposer of the Higgs boson and 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics laureate
  Francis Jones - physicist
  Claudio Maccone – space scientist
  Donald MacCrimmon MacKay - physicist
  Edward Walter Maunder – astronomer
  John Edwin Midwinter – President of the Institution of Electrical Engineers
  William Allen Miller – astronomer and chemist
  John Robert Mills – Radar pioneer
  Ali Moustafa Mosharafa - theoretical physicist
  Raja Ramanna – physicist
  Simon Saunders - philosopher of physics
  Edward James Stone – President of the Royal Astronomical Society
  Louis Slotin – nuclear physicist who took part to the Manhattan Project
  Boris Townsend – physicist
  Kumar Wickramasinghe – electrical engineer
caption: Theorist of the Higgs boson and winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics Peter Higgs (BSc, 1950; MSc, 1952; PhD, 1954)
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