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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Peter Ware Higgs''' (29 May 1929 – 8 April 2024) was a British [[theoretical physicist]], professor at the [[University of Edinburgh]],<ref name="Edit">Griggs, Jessica (Summer 2008) [http://www.ed.ac.uk/files/atoms/files/edit-summer-08.pdf The Missing Piece] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161220031426/http://www.ed.ac.uk/files/atoms/files/edit-summer-08.pdf |date=20 December 2016 }} ''Edit'' the University of Edinburgh Alumni Magazine, p. 17</ref><ref name="NYT-20140915">{{Cite news |last=Overbye |first=Dennis |author-link=Dennis Overbye |date=15 September 2014 |title=A Discoverer as Elusive as His Particle |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/16/science/a-discoverer-as-elusive-as-his-particle-.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140915201006/http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/16/science/a-discoverer-as-elusive-as-his-particle-.html |archive-date=15 September 2014 |access-date=15 September 2014 |work=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref> and [[Nobel laureate in Physics]] for his work on the mass of [[subatomic particle]]s.<ref>Overbye, Dennis. [https://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/16/science/a-discoverer-as-elusive-as-his-particle-.html A Pioneer as Elusive as His Particle] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160723101230/http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/16/science/a-discoverer-as-elusive-as-his-particle-.html |date=23 July 2016 }}, ''[[The New York Times]]'' website, 15 September 2014. Also published in print on 16 September 2014, on page D1 of the New York edition.</ref><ref name="NYT-20220715">{{Cite news |last=Blum |first=Deborah |date=15 July 2022 |title=The Recluse Who Confronted the Mystery of the Universe – Frank Close's "Elusive" looks at the life and work of the man who changed our ideas about the basis of matter. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/14/books/review/elusive-peter-higgs-frank-close.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220925042341/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/14/books/review/elusive-peter-higgs-frank-close.html |archive-date=25 September 2022 |access-date=25 September 2022 |work=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Peter Ware Higgs''' (29 May 1929 – 8 April 2024) was a British [[theoretical physicist]], professor at the [[University of Edinburgh]],<ref name="Edit">Griggs, Jessica (Summer 2008) [http://www.ed.ac.uk/files/atoms/files/edit-summer-08.pdf The Missing Piece] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161220031426/http://www.ed.ac.uk/files/atoms/files/edit-summer-08.pdf |date=20 December 2016 }} ''Edit'' the University of Edinburgh Alumni Magazine, p. 17</ref><ref name="NYT-20140915">{{Cite news |last=Overbye |first=Dennis |author-link=Dennis Overbye |date=15 September 2014 |title=A Discoverer as Elusive as His Particle |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/16/science/a-discoverer-as-elusive-as-his-particle-.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140915201006/http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/16/science/a-discoverer-as-elusive-as-his-particle-.html |archive-date=15 September 2014 |access-date=15 September 2014 |work=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref> and [[Nobel laureate in Physics]] for his work on the mass of [[subatomic particle]]s.<ref>Overbye, Dennis. [https://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/16/science/a-discoverer-as-elusive-as-his-particle-.html A Pioneer as Elusive as His Particle] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160723101230/http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/16/science/a-discoverer-as-elusive-as-his-particle-.html|date=23 July 2016}}, ''[[The New York Times]]'' website, 15 September 2014. Also published in print on 16 September 2014, on page D1 of the New York edition.</ref><ref name="NYT-20220715">{{Cite news |last=Blum |first=Deborah |date=15 July 2022 |title=The Recluse Who Confronted the Mystery of the Universe – Frank Close's "Elusive" looks at the life and work of the man who changed our ideas about the basis of matter. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/14/books/review/elusive-peter-higgs-frank-close.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220925042341/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/14/books/review/elusive-peter-higgs-frank-close.html |archive-date=25 September 2022 |access-date=25 September 2022 |work=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In 1964, Higgs was the single author of one of the three [[1964 PRL symmetry breaking papers|milestone papers]] published in ''[[Physical Review Letters]]'' (''PRL'') that proposed that [[spontaneous symmetry breaking]] in [[electroweak theory]] could explain the [[origin of mass]] of [[elementary particle]]s in general and of the [[W and Z bosons]] in particular. This [[Higgs mechanism]] predicted the existence of a new particle, the [[Higgs boson]], the detection of which became one of the great goals of physics.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Griffiths |first=Martin |date=1 May 2007 |title=The tale of the blogs' boson |url=https://physicsworld.com/a/the-tale-of-the-blogs-boson/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200806041418/https://physicsworld.com/a/the-tale-of-the-blogs-boson/ |archive-date=6 August 2020 |access-date=5 March 2020 |website=[[Physics World]]}}</ref><ref>Fermilab Today (16 June 2005) [http://www.fnal.gov/pub/today/archive_2005/today05-06-16.html Fermilab Results of the Week. Top Quarks are Higgs' best Friend] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080921134304/http://www.fnal.gov/pub/today/archive_2005/today05-06-16.html |date=21 September 2008 }} Retrieved on 27 May 2008</ref> In 2012, [[CERN]] announced the [[discovery of the Higgs boson]] at the [[Large Hadron Collider]].<ref name=BBC-04Jul12/> The Higgs mechanism is generally accepted as an important ingredient in the [[Standard Model]] of [[particle physics]], without which certain particles would have no mass.<ref>Rincon, Paul (10 March 2004) [https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3546973.stm Fermilab 'God Particle' may have been seen] Retrieved on 27 May 2008</ref></div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In 1964, Higgs was the single author of one of the three [[1964 PRL symmetry breaking papers|milestone papers]] published in ''[[Physical Review Letters]]'' (''PRL'') that proposed that [[spontaneous symmetry breaking]] in [[electroweak theory]] could explain the [[origin of mass]] of [[elementary particle]]s in general and of the [[W and Z bosons]] in particular. This [[Higgs mechanism]] predicted the existence of a new particle, the [[Higgs boson]], the detection of which became one of the great goals of physics.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Griffiths |first=Martin |date=1 May 2007 |title=The tale of the blogs' boson |url=https://physicsworld.com/a/the-tale-of-the-blogs-boson/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200806041418/https://physicsworld.com/a/the-tale-of-the-blogs-boson/ |archive-date=6 August 2020 |access-date=5 March 2020 |website=[[Physics World]]}}</ref><ref>Fermilab Today (16 June 2005) [http://www.fnal.gov/pub/today/archive_2005/today05-06-16.html Fermilab Results of the Week. Top Quarks are Higgs' best Friend] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080921134304/http://www.fnal.gov/pub/today/archive_2005/today05-06-16.html |date=21 September 2008 }} Retrieved on 27 May 2008</ref> In 2012, [[CERN]] announced the [[discovery of the Higgs boson]] at the [[Large Hadron Collider]].<ref name=BBC-04Jul12/> The Higgs mechanism is generally accepted as an important ingredient in the [[Standard Model]] of [[particle physics]], without which certain particles would have no mass.<ref>Rincon, Paul (10 March 2004) [https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3546973.stm Fermilab 'God Particle' may have been seen] Retrieved on 27 May 2008</ref></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Higgs was an [[atheist]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Sample |first=Ian |date=17 November 2007 |title=The god of small things |url=https://www.theguardian.com/science/2007/nov/17/sciencenews.particlephysics |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131001003347/http://www.theguardian.com/science/2007/nov/17/sciencenews.particlephysics |archive-date=1 October 2013 |access-date=21 March 2013 |work=The Guardian |location=London |quote=The name has stuck, but makes Higgs wince and raises the hackles of other theorists. "I wish he hadn't done it," he says. "I have to explain to people it was a joke. I'm an atheist, but I have an uneasy feeling that playing around with names like that could be unnecessarily offensive to people who are religious."}}</ref> He described [[Richard Dawkins]] as having adopted a "[[fundamentalist]]" view of non-atheists.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Farndale |first=Nigel |date=29 December 2012 |title=Has Richard Dawkins found a worthy opponent at last? |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/9770707/Has-Richard-Dawkins-found-a-worthy-opponent-at-last.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190510014950/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/9770707/Has-Richard-Dawkins-found-a-worthy-opponent-at-last.html |archive-date=10 May 2019 |access-date=10 May 2019 |work=The Daily Telegraph |location=London}}</ref> Higgs expressed displeasure with the nickname the "God particle".<ref>[https://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSL0765287220080407?sp=true Key scientist sure "God particle" will be found soon] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210223193233/https://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSL0765287220080407?sp=true |date=23 February 2021 }} Reuters news story. 7 April 2008.</ref> Although it has been reported that he believed the term "might offend people who are religious",<ref name="NS">"[https://www.newscientist.com/channel/opinion/mg19926732.100-interview-the-man-behind-the-god-particle.html Interview: the man behind the 'God particle']", [[New Scientist]] 13 September 2008, pp. 44–45 {{subscription required}} {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080913214154/http://www.newscientist.com/channel/opinion/mg19926732.100-interview-the-man-behind-the-god-particle.html |date=13 September 2008 }}</ref> Higgs stated that this is not the case, lamenting the letters he has received which claim the God particle was predicted in the [[Torah]], the [[Qur'an]] and [[Buddhist scriptures]]. In a 2013 interview with [[Decca Aitkenhead]], Higgs was quoted as saying:<ref>{{Cite web |last=Aitkenhead |first=Decca |date=6 December 2013 |title=Peter Higgs interview: 'I have this kind of underlying incompetence' |url=http://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/dec/06/peter-higgs-interview-underlying-incompetence |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140520032412/http://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/dec/06/peter-higgs-interview-underlying-incompetence |archive-date=20 May 2014 |access-date=26 May 2022 |website=The Guardian |language=en}}</ref></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Higgs was an [[atheist]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Sample |first=Ian |date=17 November 2007 |title=The god of small things |url=https://www.theguardian.com/science/2007/nov/17/sciencenews.particlephysics |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131001003347/http://www.theguardian.com/science/2007/nov/17/sciencenews.particlephysics |archive-date=1 October 2013 |access-date=21 March 2013 |work=The Guardian |location=London |quote=The name has stuck, but makes Higgs wince and raises the hackles of other theorists. "I wish he hadn't done it," he says. "I have to explain to people it was a joke. I'm an atheist, but I have an uneasy feeling that playing around with names like that could be unnecessarily offensive to people who are religious."}}</ref> He described [[Richard Dawkins]] as having adopted a "[[fundamentalist]]" view of non-atheists.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Farndale |first=Nigel |date=29 December 2012 |title=Has Richard Dawkins found a worthy opponent at last? |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/9770707/Has-Richard-Dawkins-found-a-worthy-opponent-at-last.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190510014950/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/9770707/Has-Richard-Dawkins-found-a-worthy-opponent-at-last.html |archive-date=10 May 2019 |access-date=10 May 2019 |work=The Daily Telegraph |location=London}}</ref> Higgs expressed displeasure with the nickname the "God particle".<ref>[https://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSL0765287220080407?sp=true Key scientist sure "God particle" will be found soon] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210223193233/https://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSL0765287220080407?sp=true |date=23 February 2021 }} Reuters news story. 7 April 2008.</ref> Although it has been reported that he believed the term "might offend people who are religious",<ref name="NS">"[https://www.newscientist.com/channel/opinion/mg19926732.100-interview-the-man-behind-the-god-particle.html Interview: the man behind the 'God particle']", [[New Scientist]] 13 September 2008, pp. 44–45 {{subscription required}} {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080913214154/http://www.newscientist.com/channel/opinion/mg19926732.100-interview-the-man-behind-the-god-particle.html|date=13 September 2008}}</ref> Higgs stated that this is not the case, lamenting the letters he has received which claim the God particle was predicted in the [[Torah]], the [[Qur'an]] and [[Buddhist scriptures]]. In a 2013 interview with [[Decca Aitkenhead]], Higgs was quoted as saying:<ref>{{Cite web |last=Aitkenhead |first=Decca |date=6 December 2013 |title=Peter Higgs interview: 'I have this kind of underlying incompetence' |url=http://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/dec/06/peter-higgs-interview-underlying-incompetence |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140520032412/http://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/dec/06/peter-higgs-interview-underlying-incompetence |archive-date=20 May 2014 |access-date=26 May 2022 |website=The Guardian |language=en}}</ref></div></td></tr>
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