Frasi di Peter Higgs

Peter Ware Higgs è un fisico britannico, Premio Nobel per la fisica nel 2013.

Laureatosi e specializzatosi presso il King's College di Londra, ha tenuto la cattedra di fisica teorica all'Università di Edimburgo, dove dal 1996 è professore emerito. È membro della Royal Society inglese. Wikipedia  

✵ 29. Maggio 1929
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“It’s about understanding! Understanding the world!”

Peter Higgs

Explaining what led him to study theoretical physics, as quoted by Ian Sample, in The god of small things http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2007/nov/17/sciencenews.particlephysics, The Guardian, Saturday 17 November 2007.

“Higgs mechanism should be renamed the “ABEGHHK'tH mechanism””

Peter Higgs

During the opening of one conference Peter Higgs attended to. The name is after all of the people (Philip Warren Anderson, Robert Brout, François Englert, Gerry Guralnik, Dick Hagen, Peter Higgs, Tom Kibble and Gerard 't Hooft) who discovered it, or rediscovered it.

“This summer I have discovered something totally useless.”

Peter Higgs

Writing to a colleague about his proposal for a particle at the origin of mass (1964), as quoted in The Hunt for the Higgs Boson http://www.sciencescotland.org/feature.php?id=14, Science Scotland, issue no. 3.

“When you look at a vacuum in a quantum theory of fields, it isn't exactly nothing.”

Peter Higgs

in video Meet Peter Higgs http://cdsweb.cern.ch/record/1019670 by CERN (July 2004).

“The point came when people were doing things I didn't feel competent to do myself. I'm not being modest, I honestly get lost. I was lucky in spotting what I did when I did, but there comes a point where you realise what you're doing is not going to be much good.”

Peter Higgs

Explaining how he came to follow the race for the discovery of the Higgs boson from the sidelines, as quoted by Ian Sample, in The god of small things, The Guardian, Saturday 17 November 2007.

“There is a sort of mythology that grows up about what happened, which is different from what really did happen.”

Peter Higgs

About the early days after the proposal of the Higgs mechanism, as quoted by Peter Rodgers, in Peter Higgs: the man behind the boson http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/print/19750, Physics World (July 10, 2004)

“It's very nice to be right sometimes … it has certainly been a long wait.”

Peter Higgs

In a press conference asked whether he felt a sense of vindication.
Origine: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2012/jul/06/prof-higgs-nice-right-boson
Origine: https://www.news.com.au/national/nice-to-be-right-says-peter-higgs-about-bosun-discovery/news-story/f87c237d7b51c8e067ed94e97ed0eb65

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