Credit: Peter Tuffy and University of Edinburgh
Fellow
Elected: 1983
Emeritus Professor of Theoretical Physics, University of Edinburgh, University of Edinburgh
elementary particles, spontaneous symmetry breaking, Brout-Englert-Higgs mechanism
For his fundamental contribution to particle physics with his theory explaining the origin of mass in elementary particles, confirmed by the experiments at the Large Hadron Collider.
For their international contributions about the spontaneous breaking of fundamental symmetries in elementary-particle theory.
Jointly with François Englert for the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles, and which recently was confirmed through the discovery of the predicted fundamental particle, by
In the field of physics for pioneering work that has led to the insight of mass generation whenever a local gauge symmetry is realized asymmetrically in the world of sub-atomic particles.