What is recorded here
This blue commemorative plaque records: Peter Ware Higgs. Born 1929. Theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate in Physics 2013. Wrote the papers which predicted the Higgs boson in this building in 1964. Recorded plaque organisation: Institute of Physics.
Peter Ware Higgs was a theoretical physicist who predicted the existence of the Higgs boson, a fundamental particle that explains how other particles acquire mass; he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2013 for this groundbreaking work.
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