Frases de Peter Higgs

Peter Ware Higgs FRS, FRSE, FKC é um físico teórico britânico e professor emérito da Universidade de Edimburgo. Foi laureado com o Nobel de Física de 2013, juntamente com François Englert, pela descoberta do mecanismo de Higgs.Higgs é conhecido por sua proposta de 1960 de quebra da simetria na teoria “eletrofraca”, explicando a origem da massa das partículas elementares em geral e, em particular, dos bósons W e Z. O assim chamado mecanismo de Higgs teve vários inventores além de Higgs, e prevê a existência de uma nova partícula, o bóson de Higgs . Identificado pelo CERN, o bosón de Higgs teve sua existência oficialmente anunciada para o mundo em 4 de julho de 2012. O mecanismo de Higgs é tido como um ingrediente importante no modelo padrão de partículas físicas, sem a qual as partículas não teriam massa.

Foi homenageado com uma série de prêmios em reconhecimento de seu trabalho, incluindo a Medalha Dirac pelas contribuições à física teórica do Instituto de Física em 1997, o Prêmio High Energy and Particle Physics pela Sociedade Europeia de Física em 1997, o Prêmio Wolf de Física em 2004 e o Nobel de Física de 2013. Wikipedia  

✵ 29. Maio 1929
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Peter Higgs: Frases em inglês

“It’s about understanding! Understanding the world!”

Explaining what led him to study theoretical physics, as quoted by Ian Sample, in The god of small things http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2007/nov/17/sciencenews.particlephysics, The Guardian, Saturday 17 November 2007.

“Higgs mechanism should be renamed the “ABEGHHK'tH mechanism””

During the opening of one conference Peter Higgs attended to. The name is after all of the people (Philip Warren Anderson, Robert Brout, François Englert, Gerry Guralnik, Dick Hagen, Peter Higgs, Tom Kibble and Gerard 't Hooft) who discovered it, or rediscovered it.

“This summer I have discovered something totally useless.”

Writing to a colleague about his proposal for a particle at the origin of mass (1964), as quoted in The Hunt for the Higgs Boson http://www.sciencescotland.org/feature.php?id=14, Science Scotland, issue no. 3.

“When you look at a vacuum in a quantum theory of fields, it isn't exactly nothing.”

in video Meet Peter Higgs http://cdsweb.cern.ch/record/1019670 by CERN (July 2004).

“The point came when people were doing things I didn't feel competent to do myself. I'm not being modest, I honestly get lost. I was lucky in spotting what I did when I did, but there comes a point where you realise what you're doing is not going to be much good.”

Explaining how he came to follow the race for the discovery of the Higgs boson from the sidelines, as quoted by Ian Sample, in The god of small things, The Guardian, Saturday 17 November 2007.

“There is a sort of mythology that grows up about what happened, which is different from what really did happen.”

About the early days after the proposal of the Higgs mechanism, as quoted by Peter Rodgers, in Peter Higgs: the man behind the boson http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/print/19750, Physics World (July 10, 2004)

“It's very nice to be right sometimes … it has certainly been a long wait.”

In a press conference asked whether he felt a sense of vindication.
Fonte: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2012/jul/06/prof-higgs-nice-right-boson
Fonte: https://www.news.com.au/national/nice-to-be-right-says-peter-higgs-about-bosun-discovery/news-story/f87c237d7b51c8e067ed94e97ed0eb65