Peter Higgs, self-promoter
I was randomly rewatching The Big Bang Theory on Netflix today when I spotted this gem: Okay, maybe less a gem and more a shiny stone, but still. The screenshot, taken from the third episode of the s…
Tom Kibble
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Tom Kibble (1932-2016)
Kibble was one of the six theorists who, in 1964, came up with the ABEGHHK'tH mechanism to explain how gauge bosons acquired mass.…
Gerald Guralnik (1936-2014)
Of the six scientists who came up with the idea of a Higgs boson in the mid-1960s, independently or in collaboration with others, I've met all of one. Tom Kibble was at the Institute of Mathematic…