As per our current Database, Peter Higgs is still alive (as per Wikipedia, Last update: May 10, 2020).
Currently, Peter Higgs is 94 years, 10 months and 28 days old. Peter Higgs will celebrate 95rd birthday on a Wednesday 29th of May 2024. Below we countdown to Peter Higgs upcoming birthday.
Popular As | Peter Higgs |
Occupation | Physicist |
Age | 94 years old |
Zodiac Sign | Gemini |
Born | May 29, 1929 (England) |
Birthday | May 29 |
Town/City | England |
Nationality | England |
Peter Higgs’s zodiac sign is Gemini. According to astrologers, Gemini is expressive and quick-witted, it represents two different personalities in one and you will never be sure which one you will face. They are sociable, communicative and ready for fun, with a tendency to suddenly get serious, thoughtful and restless. They are fascinated with the world itself, extremely curious, with a constant feeling that there is not enough time to experience everything they want to see.
Peter Higgs was born in the Year of the Snake. Those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Snake are seductive, gregarious, introverted, generous, charming, good with money, analytical, insecure, jealous, slightly dangerous, smart, they rely on gut feelings, are hard-working and intelligent. Compatible with Rooster or Ox.
Physicist who proposed a theoretical particle, later named after him, to explain why the fundamental building blocks of the universe have mass. He won the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work in 2013.
He built upon the works other Scientists to put forward a theory that all of space is in a quantum field, which led to the conclusion there must be an undetectable particle as well.
Experiments using the Large Hadron Collider in 2012 for the first time confirmed the existence of his previously theoretical particle.
His father a BBC sound Engineer, and due to his job the family moved around a lot.
His discovery was mentioned frequently by Jim Parsons' Physicist character, Sheldon Cooper, in the sitcom The Big Bang Theory.