Peter Higgs
1929 – 2024 · United Kingdom · Physics
Nobel Prize in Physics, 2013
Predicted the boson that gives particles mass, found 48 years later.
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- Abdus Salam
1926 – 1996 · Physics
Electroweak unification made the Higgs field a testable component of the Standard Model.
- Richard Feynman
1918 – 1988 · Physics
Gauge field theory as Feynman helped formalise it is the setting for the Higgs mechanism.
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