Nobel laureate: Peter Higgs
Born: 1929-05-29, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
Died: 2024-04-08, Edinburgh, Scotland
Gender: male
Prizes:
year: 2013
category: physics
share: 2
motivation: "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, by the ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN's Large Hadron Collider"
affiliations: name: University of Edinburgh
city: Edinburgh
country: United Kingdom