What is recorded here
The public map records this plaque for Peter Ware Higgs, born 1929. Its recorded inscription reads: Theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate in Physics 2013. Wrote the paper which predicted the Higgs boson in this building in 1964.
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. His work, formulated in 1964, was crucial to the Standard Model of particle physics and earned him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2013.
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