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To recognise Peter Ware Higgs, British Theoretical physics with a Knighthood

Submitted on Wednesday 4th July 2012

Rejected on Wednesday 21st June 2017

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: honours (see below for details)

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To recognise Peter Ware Higgs, British Theoretical physics with a Knighthood

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To recognise Peter Ware Higgs, British Theoretical physics with a Knighthood..
He is best known for his 1960s proposal of broken symmetry in electroweak theory, explaining the origin of mass of elementary particles in general and of the W and Z bosons in particular. This so-called Higgs mechanism, which had several inventors besides Higgs at about the same time, predicts the existence of a new particle, the Higgs boson (often described as "the most sought-after particle in modern physics"). The Higgs mechanism is generally accepted as an important ingredient in the Standard Model of particle physics, without which particles would have no mass.


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