The model I came up with in 1964 is just the invention of a rather strange sort of medium that looks the same in all directions and produces a kind of refraction that is a little bit more complicated than that of light in glass or water.
My recollection of the higher school certificate, which involved a practical exam in physics, was being confronted with an experiment involving a sor… - Peter Higgs
My recollection of the higher school certificate, which involved a practical exam in physics, was being confronted with an experiment involving a sor…
- Peter Higgs
Nobody else took what I was doing seriously, so nobody would want to work with me. I was thought to be a bit eccentric and maybe cranky. - Peter Higgs
Nobody else took what I was doing seriously, so nobody would want to work with me. I was thought to be a bit eccentric and maybe cranky.
The model I came up with in 1964 is just the invention of a rather strange sort of medium that looks the same in all directions and produces a kind o… - Peter Higgs
The model I came up with in 1964 is just the invention of a rather strange sort of medium that looks the same in all directions and produces a kind o…
That name was a kind of joke, and not a very good one. An author, Leon Lederman, wanted to call it 'that goddamn particle' because it was clear it wa… - Peter Higgs
That name was a kind of joke, and not a very good one. An author, Leon Lederman, wanted to call it 'that goddamn particle' because it was clear it wa…
If the U.K. were threatening to withdraw from Europe, I would certainly want Scotland to be out of that. - Peter Higgs
If the U.K. were threatening to withdraw from Europe, I would certainly want Scotland to be out of that.
I never expected this to happen in my lifetime and shall be asking my family to put some champagne in the fridge. - Peter Higgs
I never expected this to happen in my lifetime and shall be asking my family to put some champagne in the fridge.
When you look at a vacuum in a quantum theory of fields, it isn't exactly nothing. - Peter Higgs
When you look at a vacuum in a quantum theory of fields, it isn't exactly nothing.
I would send back a statement: ‘None.’ - Peter Higgs
I would send back a statement: ‘None.’
I was an embarrassment to the department when they did research assessment exercises. A message would go round the department: 'Please give a list of… - Peter Higgs
I was an embarrassment to the department when they did research assessment exercises. A message would go round the department: 'Please give a list of…
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